The Tom Fitzmorris Appreciation and Memories Thread

There is a growing trend on this board to mock, criticize and demean the truly authentic and wonderful father of New Orleans food entertainment and art. Such people are trash, worthy of our ridicule and mockery. The anti-Tom sentiment is born of posters not born in New Orleans. They don’t understand New Orleans and never will. Tom is New Orleans. His personality and style are at their core essential New Orleans. The type who insult him are the same type of people make fun of Lee Corso and say he should be booted off Game Day.

Here are some fitzmorris facts:
*Weekly newsletter published for 42 straight years

*World’s first and longest running talk show devoted only to food, now in its 44th year

*Inspiration to scores of chefs, restaurant owners, and amateur critics and home cooks.

*Author or editor of 8 books devoted to New Orleans cuisine

*Staunch champion of the city of New Orleans after Katrina, perhaps her biggest supporter and reason for renaissance

No one, not even I, knows more of the history of New Orleans cuisine and her restaurants than Mr. Fitzmorris. He is a walking encyclopedia on America’s greatest culinary city. It is one of the most important New Orleanians of the 20th century and will be celebrated as such, especially when he is gone.

All you haters, go back to Baton Rouge, Monroe or whatever flavorless cesspool in which you were born.

Tom taught me how to critique food. He taught me to appreciate eating out. He taught me how to describe food and to make food criticism an art. Few things when I was in elementary and middle school did I enjoy more than riding home in the car after school with The Food Show entertaining and educating me. If you were born in the city and had cultured parents you know exactly about which I write. I will forever be grateful to the master.

TOM FREAKING FITZMORRIS, ladies and gentleman!!!!!!