ARE YOU BREADY FOR IT?
DON’T SKIP THE BREAD SERVICE – Maypop’s Annatto Rolls. One of the restaurant’s top selling food items uses a barely modified recipe for Parker House Rolls from Angler Restaurant (San Francisco/Los Angeles) owned by multi-Michelin star Chef, Josh Skenes.
The 'delicious' Annatto Rolls at Maypop Restaurant are actually a barely modified recipe for Parker House Rolls from Angler Restaurant (San Francisco/Los Angeles); owned by multi Michelin star Chef, Joshua Skenes.
‘If Maypop were to do a cookbook, it would be a bibliography...with a generous piling of cilantro.’
THOSE WHO CAN’T… – (Pictured Above) Maypop's new dessert menu item; Chocolate Coconut Candy Bar. Do a random search on Google and it's the recipe from Food & Wine. Ironic. A Maypop special posted on June 14th via the restaurant's IG stories; ripe cantaloupe with chili crisp, yogurt and three year old ham. A quintessential Southeast Asian delicacy from the providence of Florence, Italy, and, not surprisingly, this 'special' happened only days after Jewel of the South debuted its summer menu featuring, guess what? Cantaloupe with aged prosciutto, ricotta and pecan vinaigrette.
‘I do find it comical…that NOLA food writers, bloggers and restaurant owners (read: sycophants) continue to give a hall pass to some over the hill fratboy who…worked at only one restaurant – making contemporary Creole cuisine – went to Italy for whatever reason, spent two years in the Black Forest to learn German, and yet opens, not one, but two Asian Fusion restaurants in New Orleans, with an ongoing gastro-identity crisis, and these children don’t question any of it.’
If Maypop were to do a cookbook, it would be a bibliography...with a generous piling of cilantro.
I do find it comical, however, that NOLA food writers, bloggers and restaurant owners (read: sycophants) continue to give a hall pass to some over the hill fratboy who had the good fortune of failing upwards all his 'career' courtesy of white, male, heterosexual privilege and an annoying sense of self-entitlement. Who worked at only one restaurant – making contemporary Creole cuisine – went to Italy for whatever reason, spent two years in the Black Forest to learn German, and yet opens, not one, but two Asian Fusion restaurants in New Orleans, with an ongoing gastro-identity crisis, and these children don’t question any of it. (Especially his tenure at the restaurant he worked at prior to his Chef mentor's downfall following accusations of sexual harassment.)
What's more, the way these groupies fawn over him personally in an inappropriate manner themselves is not a feasible reason to allow him an out either. And he himself, hiring an online trainer, getting his sun-damaged upper body waxed, seeing a singing dermatologist to clean his crater-sized pores, piling his thinning hair forward on his rapidly balding head, and visiting a drug counselor every week who's 'pretty good' and 'only cost a hundred bucks' to enable him being a toxic narcissist, does not a real Chef make. Much less one with any real talent or creativity.
Y'all knead to grow up.