Étouffée Part II

One day my dorm room phone rang. My roommate answered the call and took a message for me from Olga. She said she would be by to “collect” me for Mass on Sunday morning. I had her number and called her back. To her message she added that I should wear a jacket and a…

Étouffée

When I was a kid, I collected menus. In those days it was considered a complement to the restaurant to ask for a menu. I had menus from Joe’s Stone Crabs in Miami Beach, Luchow’s in NYC, and Antoine’s in New Orleans. My father was complicit in helping me collect. Other boys collected baseball cards….