NYT Article Has New Orleans Exclaiming 'What the Kale!?'
The words that launched the hashtag #NOLAKale and triggered angry local reaction pieces can be found in the seventh paragraph of Lizzy Goodman’s New York Times travel piece:
“New Orleans is not cosmopolitan,” said the actress Tara Elders. “There’s no kale here.” Her husband, Michiel Huisman, the actor and musician who moved here with Ms. Elders in 2009 to shoot the HBO series Treme (he’s currently on the series Nashville), agreed. “The sign on a shop says that they’ll open at 10? You’re there at noon and it’s not open,” he said.
Goodman probably came close to not using the Elders remark.
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