Second Harvest’s new kitchen cooks up answers to child hunger Summer’s half over, but a new campaign to battle child hunger in the New Orleans area has just begun. Now, with a gleaming new commercial kitchen, full-time chef and fleet of tightly scheduled trucks, the organization sends nourishing breakfasts and lunches to as many as 3,000 needy...
Family business reopens in New Orleans making Melba toast
“The owner of Mandina’s gave me a big hug, ” reports Katy Turnbull. “She said, ‘Thank you. I want my garlic rounds back.’ ” Turnbull, 23, and her sister Whitney Turnbull, 22, recently moved to New Orleans to reopen Turnbull Bakeries, their grandmother’s Melba toast factory just off Tchoupitoulas Street. After 60...