central grocery's muffaletta

May 22

Central Grocery's muffaletta is hand's down one of the best sandwiches in the world. And unless you are alergic to olives or olive oil, (if you haven't already) you've gotta try one. This very unique sandwich can be found throughout New Orleans, but was originated at the Central Grocery in New Orleans over a hundred years ago. I love going to the source, and have been enjoying this litle (well ok, big) delicacy for over three decades.

This visit to New Orleans, I came away with not only a Muffaletta (half of which I enjoyed during during my flight from New Orleans to Design Week New York) but with this little video of a tour of this century old New Orleans Grocery store.

Robin Wade

Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.

robinwadefurniture.com

central grocery's muffaletta

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