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Article: Antoine's next course.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- October 16, 2005
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Byline: Howard Witt
Oct. 16--NEW ORLEANS -- The maitre d' is dead.
He perished at home, along with his son, sometime after the levees broke and the floodwaters rushed in and his tiny house in northern New Orleans filled to the ceiling with fetid water.
Most of the rest of the restaurant's staff of 130--the chefs, the waiters, the wine stewards, the busboys, the dishwashers--are scattered across 14 states, the homes they fled no longer habitable, the jobs they worked no longer assured.
Hundreds of pounds of decomposing lobsters, steaks and soft-shell crabs fill the walk-in freezer. The ceiling beam in the main dining room is bowed and ...