Chef Moves from Louisiana Bayou to City by the Bay

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/8/05 | John Koopman

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The Condor has been reincarnated as a New Orleans-style seafood and jazz joint run by chef Andrew Jaeger and a crew of Southerners who came here to help him set up the place. It was supposed to be a second restaurant for Jaeger -- second to his popular seafood place in New Orleans' French Quarter. Now, it looks like San Francisco will be home, at least until New Orleans is wrung out and dried.

"A lot of us here are from New Orleans, and we still don't know if our homes are safe or not," Jaeger said this week, sitting at a table in his new restaurant dining room. "We don't know when we can go home. We're all displaced."

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He's been here for a little more than a month. He brought with him six employees and a jazz musician, people who had been with him at his New Orleans establishment. They were just getting the place running smoothly when they turned on the news to witness the total devastation of the place he called home.

"There's a lot of talk about how long it took for help to arrive," Jaeger said, sipping water from a wine glass. "But when you live in New Orleans, you're constantly told to keep hurricane supplies on hand. They say five days' water and five days' food. How long did it take for help? Five days."

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Buried in the article is that incredible gem...everybody in NOLA has been told "constantly" by city government that you have to keep five days water and food on hand at all times for hurricane emergencies. And, surprise of all surprises, it took five days for help to arrive after Katrina. The city KNEW that self-reliance was the only hope. The people were TOLD this repeatedly.

[coconutt2000]

Last hurricane I was in we had over 30 gallons of clean tap water, and 5 cases of bottled water, as many bags of ice as we could fit into our coolers and freezers, and enough canned food to last for a couple of weeks, along with enough cooking fuel for a portable stove so that we could cook what food we had. We even had our gas grill topped off so that we could grill all of our frozen meat in the event that we had a prolonged power failure.

And the hurricane missed. We kept the supplies in a closet through the end of the hurricane season, and to the best of my knowledge, I'm sure my father still has a couple weeks supplies stashed in a closet on the top floor, on the opposite side of the house from which hurricanes tend to come.

[flashbunny]

Last week the looting apologists on free republic were throwing out excuses like the people down their were 'suddenly' put in this position and that they were 'too poor' to be prepared.

It was BS then and it's B.S. now. For about $50 you can get a case of 12 MRE's. Enough calories to last 12 days if you needed to. Another $10 and you get 12 gallons of water to drink.

You can make 5 days of preparations for a family of four for just over $100.

But I suppose it's too insensitive to expect the poor to do that. Instead, most of them have more important priorities, like big screen tv's, cell phones, playstations, and DVD players.

And if any of the apologists come on this thread and accuse me of bashing the poor, remember that our 'poor' live like the middle and upper middle class in most countries - even the ones we consider developed!

That's probably why legal immigrants do so well here - they get an average paying job and feel like they're living like kings if they have a roof over their head, air conditioning and indoor plumbing. They don't worry about frivolous status symbols and useless items. They get by on what they need and they keep working to improve their lives.

Sad what decades of liberal laws have done to the American spirit. Being self reliant, frugal, and industrious are seen as being out of style and old fashioned.

[rawcatslyentist]

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