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Undeterred, two years later Jennings directed “Vieux Carre” by Tennessee Williams, a play set in the South with overt references to homosexuality...
...head up Rue Saint-Maur, stopping for lunch at the magnificent Algerian pastry shop La Bague de Kenza, tel: (33-1) 4314 9315. I'd order something hot like a m'hajeb - bell-pepper-and-tomato-stuffed pastry. Finally, my day would end at the bistro Le Vieux Belleville, tel: (33-1) 4462 9266, above the Parc de Belleville and with an amazing view over Paris. Several nights a week, chansonniers perform, lyrics are passed out and you sing along to old favorites while you drink red wine and eat a good steak. (See reviews of 50 American wines...
...Minister of Rum, and he's issued a new decree: rum after dinner instead of the traditional brandy or single-malt scotch. "We all remember getting sick on mixed rum drinks in college," says Hamilton, 52, who imports and writes about exotic brands like Bielle Rhum Vieux (from the tiny island of Marie-Galante), Matusalem (Dominican Republic) and Ron Zacapa Centenario (Guatemala). "But when people taste an aged rum, when the tropical flavors mix with an oaky, smoky finish, it's like trying rum again for the first time...
...caramel and vanilla, the hints of tobacco and leather--is what first grabs most enthusiasts. But because rum is fermented from sugarcane juice, syrup or molasses, it offers a sweet bonus: tropical essences like banana, pineapple and coconut. Known as ron aejo in Spanish and rhum vieux in French, aged rums are blends of stock as old as 30 years, stored in oak. (Solera on the labels refers to the blending process.) The Caribbean climate accelerates aging, giving the rums more tannins and spice. Retail prices are usually under $40 a bottle...
...proved him right. Those cheery tourists need only have peered out of their French Quarter hotel-room windows to see the ugly and abject poverty on full display at the squalid Iberville housing projects (average annual income of its 833 households: $7,279), sitting just next door to the Vieux Carr off Canal Street. If the visitors had taken a few steps beyond Tulane University and the nearby Garden District mansions, they would have found themselves smack-dab in the middle of a ghetto choked with rudimentary shotgun houses, dilapidated housing projects and living conditions that seem only slightly better...