re: The Tom Fitzmorris Appreciation and Memories Thread

Think about this. As a college kid, he starts publishing his own letter about eating out. He gets some air time at UNO’s radio station and starts talking about food.

He turns that into a 45 year career, enabling him to raise a family, become an inspiration to thousands, write more words about New Orleans food than any of you have even thought, bring back New Orleans from America’s worst natural disaster, and document the city’s food over the last 50 years in ways that not even the New York Times can approximate with New York.

The haters are just jealous, jealous that they couldn’t do what he’s done, which is far more than my words can describe. The haters are jealous because what they do in their free time, Mr Fitzmorris has been paid to do for 45 years. And who is richer for it? All the citizens of New Orleans and her visitors.

In no other city in America would this be possible. And it was only possible in New Orleans for that Jesuit-Rummel alumnus, the big Irishman with the roast beef gravy smooth voice born on Mardi Gras.

TOM FREAKING FITZMORRIS!!!!