Oak Street Poor Boy Festival

No we are not honoring poor boys.  We honor food of all shapes and sizes. Yesterday, we strolled down Oak Street from St. Charles to the river, and found that we could sample everything from Zapp's chips dipped in dark chocolate to the entire thanksgiving meal between two pieces of Leidenheimer's bread.

Leidenheimer's bread was at all of the 30 vendors food stations!  This New Orleans tradition has been encasing poor boys for 117 years!  Eating the bread alone has always been a treat.  Imagine our delight when Oak Street Cafe wrapped it around turkey, corn bread dressing, and cranberry sauce!  Now that's how you sell leftovers to your loved ones after Thursday's celebration!

The line for G.W. Fin's fried lobster poor boy was a 30 minute wait, and well worth it!  I met two young men who work for the Pelicans, one from Cape Cod and the other from New Jersey.  All you have to do is smile at others waiting for good food and the conversation flows.

When I asked the chef from G.W. Fin how many pounds of lobster he'd prepared, he said,"I'll have bad lobster karma from now on."

I hope that his dreams did not include large claws like the ones on our sandwich!