The excerpts below are from my memoir, “No Experience Necessary”. The title of this post and the photo that accompanies it refer to “The Midget Bar” where I worked in 1973. There is an entire chapter from those days. The Midget was my second cooking job. I worked the ‘graveyard…
Folks & Times
I have begun a new series. I’ve titled it “Folks and Times”.
They include many people I’ve met, cooked for, hung out with, and also in here, many of the memorable times I’ve had in the dance of living I want to share with you all.
Category: Folks & Times
BOQUERIA MARKET, BARCELONA MEMORY 2005
BOQUERIA MARKET: BARCELONA Saturday, September 10, 2005 Saturdays in markets all over the world bustle with energy. At Barcelona’s famed Boqueria market on a sun drenched September morning Janet and I felt as alive and excited as we might have walking into Woodstock in 1969. Magazine pictures can only give…
DR. JOHN, THE NIGHT TRIPPER
I was a fan of this legendary New Orleans artist from his breakout albums ‘Gris Gris’ in 1968. I likely was turned onto it by a guy I came to identify as my chosen older brother. He preceded me in birth by four critical years. When he turned me on…
MICKEY ROURKE
I have begun a new series I’ve titled ‘Folks’. They include the myriad people I’ve met, cooked for, hung out with and more over the life. For other entries see that area of my site. It is under, “Writings”. You never know who you will bump into. MICKEY ROURKE The…
Captain Tony
Boats are launched. So perhaps it is by some unconscious pull like a tide in the Gulf of Mexico I have selected the one and only ‘Captain Tony’ to start my first in what will hopefully be a surprising list of what I call ‘folks’ here that I’ve come to…
Norman Van Aken remembers Jimmy Buffett
Greetings from Key West! Or at least a trip down Memory Lane. Amy Drew Thompson can follow a winding road as you will see when you read this story about me and ‘The Eternal Honorary Mayor of Margaritaville’! The chef & the rock star: Norman Van Aken remembers Jimmy Buffett…