Just like San Francisco
So as much as I am want to bitch about San Francisco and California sometimes you know how beautiful it is there and the cornucopia of all that awaits you. It’s just not home and that is what made it difficult to reside there. But when I moved back to New Orleans I continued to see my hair stylist there because I feared getting a New Orleans haircut. So when I found Scott Reynaud at Jupiter here, I was so happy to be getting a California style here in the Big Easy. The funny part about this is Scott is country boy from Louisiana so his transcendence as a stylist comes from two things – talent and the knowledge gained from going elsewhere to augment his education and continue learning.
Similarly, last night we went for a late bite to Mondo, Susan Spicer’s newish Lakeview restaurant and sat at the bar and had a beet carpaccio salad with a pizza. DELICIOUS – it reminded me of the food in San Francisco – original and fresh and tasty as hell without being overwrought and without having a context of locale which most New Orleans restaurants cannot escape from – and yes, I am a localvore but I also like a continental dish served up now and then.
And yesterday I handed out flyers with someone I never met before but liked right away – straight from the NorthEast he and his wife relocated here to New Orleans – why? because they love it – and he started a construction company called Green Coast Enterprises constructing sustainable dwellings because much as we were living in a recycled world down here because we reused and reused wonderfully old materials to keep our houses together, we hadn’t really started exploring new ways to keep old things sustainable much in the way California has led the way on progressive building for years. So here again another example of just like San Francisco.
Now let’s us pause and say there is NO PLACE LIKE HOME.