The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is held annually over two weekends (seven days) at the end of April and beginning of May. This event rivals Mardi Gras for its commercial impact on the city, an estimated $300million (2012).
Read more about the Five (5) essentials for New Orleans Jazz Fest here.
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Recipes & Travel:
Creole cooking, Jazz Fest, New Orleans, New Orleans food, Oysters, Seafood
The friendly guy behind the counter at Community Coffee in the French Quarter asked
“Are y’all you going to the Fest this mornin?”
G&N were visiting New Orleans or NOLA, as some like to call it, for the second time.
They had forgotten about the je ne c’est quoi smell that defines Bourbon Street or Calle De Borbon. It is difficult to determine which is worse; the humid evening whiffs, a combination of stale booze and its fresh side effects, or those same odors reawakened in the morning during street cleaning.
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Recipes & Travel:
Coffee, Crescent City, Jazz Fest, New Orleans
