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Drinking: The Old New Orleans Rum Distillery

Neither Cristina nor I are big drinkers but that didn’t stop us from touring the Old New Orleans Distillery. Located on Frenchman St. between the I-10 split, the distillery can be a little hard to find. In fact, if it wasn’t for the decorated door, we would have wondered if…

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Eating: Amazing Fried Chicken at The Praline Connection

Having bought tickets to the Old New Orleans Rum Distillery through Living Social, we decided that a mid-October Saturday was the perfect time to go. But first, we had to eat. The Distillery is on Frenchman but in between the interstate split. We decided to try a Marigny restaurant. Cristina…

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Running and Eating: Disney 5K and the Food and Wine Festival

We have been running for about three months. We are proud of what we have accomplished because this is actually the third time we have tried the C25K program. To make sure we stayed on course this time, we signed up for a race even before we started. And we…

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Cooking: How Cooking Benefits Us

Yesterday, in the Sunday Review of the New York Times, Mark Bittman wrote an Op-Ed piece on how junk food is not actually cheaper than regular food (if you want to read it, go ahead, we’ll be here when you get back). He talks about how families can really cook…

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Review of Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

The Argument Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead is a movie made by an Australian business man on how going on a juice fast changed his life for the better. My review of Fat Sick and Nearly Dead really isn’t about that. The plot is simple. An overweight man, Joe Cross,…

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Running: Sidelined by the Dreaded f-word

After our first 5K in Lockport, we were excited about keeping to our running schedule.  We live on the east bank to the Mississippi River and are lucky to have paved biking/running paths on the levees.  We were all set to go run on the west bank levee every other…

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