Tom Fitzmorris moving to WGSO

Cool, I’ll listen to him again since he left for HD radio. However, he gets slammed on this board and will give him a shot.

Why that’s Chef Andrea’s music

Friend,

There are reasons, irrational though they may be. Jealousy is the primary one. No single person has done more for New Orleans dining and cooking than Tom Fitzmorris. We are blessed to live in a time where Tom lives, breathes, and shares his experiences. He is our poet laureate and without him the New Orleans dining scene over the last 40 years would be greatly attenuated.

Tastefully Yours,
TulaneLSU

Message to TF, or whoever/whatever name you go by on this board, pleeeease use this change to work on the production value of your show.

Friend,

I am considering emailing Tom to see if he would be interested in allowing me to do a weekly segment with him on air.

The quality of his show is unsurpassed. My offer would be more for my own enjoyment and truly an honor. To speak on air with the greatest living legend in New Orleans is something that would bring great honor to my family.

Yours,
TulaneLSU

Oh, I would love that

Tom >>>> Alex Jones

Is he leaving his insufferable wife behind?

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the greatest living legend in New Orleans

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See, this is the kind of thing that causes a real loss of credibility.

I’ve never heard the guy so I’m not commenting on him. But almost no one outside of New Orleans has ever heard of him.

But the TF threads are very entertaining

Friend,

He has hosted an entertaining, educational, and classy radio show three hours five days a week for 45 years. That’s 35,000 hours of food wisdom, story telling, and friendship. In the meantime, he has written a multitude of books on New Orleans cooking, dining and general life. He has hosted weekly eat clubs and done more charity events than we will ever know.

His food exploits and contributions are innumerable. As he enters the autumn of his career, the sea urchins and crabs are coming out in full force to pick at his fraying edges trying to get a pound of flesh or sliver of his sinew. He may not be always on the cutting edge as he was for the last 40 or so years. Part of that is he has an enormous wealth of past experience and wisdom he is still trying to share. I’d rather he talk to us, his beautiful audience, about a meal 25 years ago at a fixture of New Orleans dining than review a trendy new restaurant that opened three months ago and will likely be gone in a year. One is New Orleans. The other is anywhere fairy dust.

There isn’t a single critic, Philositos, or radio host of any stripe who has been so consistent, consistently great, and devoted than Tom Fitzmorris. He is a living legend. Most will only recognize his greatness when he is gone. But I say, those of us who can need to wake up and give thanks for his greatness today. Of all the media celebrities in the world there is none I would rather dine with or spend an hour with than Tom Fitzmorris.

Yours,
TulaneLSU