January 2007 Archives

Pizza Florence, on Veterans Blvd. at N. Woodlawn Ave. (across the street from Clearview Mall).

These guys make good pizza. 'nuff said on that. Rather than a classic calzone or stromboli, they do a "Lavash Wrap" sandwich, which is delicious, particularly the eggplant-and-garlic one.

King Cake Dolls! In addition to the traditional plastic baby that's actually baked into the king cake, Haydel's Bakery (on Jefferson Highway) has been doing a series of specialty dolls each year. The series has included a maid in full costume, mardi gras indians, members of St. Aug's band, a streetcar for the Phunny Phorty Phellows, well, you get the idea.

This year, Haydel's has three dolls, and we've gotten two of them so far. On the left is a FEMA trailer decorated for Carnival. On the right is "Katrina," a girl wrapped in a blue tarp. The third is a male Carnival masker, dressed as the superhero, "Blue Roof Guy."

:-)