What I Don't Think About Anymore
The thing about journals is that they remind you of things that were once so intense that they were never far from your thoughts. Then one day, you glance at a very old journal, and you realize that you don’t even think about them anymore.
I grew up in a prominent New Orleans restaurant family in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s. Being gay and closeted was core to my life and colored how I saw the world. Lesbians were unheard of, and if you did hear whispers about them, they tended to “move away.” Daily, hourly, the burden was on me to figure out how to maneuver everyday situations, because holding my girlfriend’s hand in public could get me beaten up or worse. The first time I did that in broad daylight, I nervously looked over my shoulder. Shaking, but with a smile that likely made me look gay and kind of wacky.
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Recently, some younger people I work with have asked me about being gay and whether I was OK making that more known. My first thought was, “Who doesn’t know?” But glancing at some old journals revealed to me that for a large part of my life, I had been tangled in a
New Orleans Legend Ti Martin Is Leading a Hospitality Revolution — and There's Plenty of Dancing in the Dining Room
Ti Martin and the Hospitality Revolution
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 16 of Tinfoil Swans, a podcast from Food & Wine. New episodes drop every Tuesday. Listen and follow on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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Ti Martin — along with her cousin and co-proprietor, Lally Brennan — is ensuring that the family's year-old New Orleans restaurant Commander's Palace is living up to its legacy and moving into the future. At the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen this past June, Martin joined Tinfoil Swans for a spirited conversation about kicking down doors, the gift and responsibility that comes with running an iconic family business, why hospitality and service are not the same thing, and how to get people dancing in the dining room.
What I Don't Think About Anymore
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Ti Adelaide Martin is the board chair and co-founder of the New Orleans Culinary & Hospitality Institute (NOCHI); author of Commander's Kitchen, In the Land of Cocktails: Recipes and Adventures
Ti Adelaide Martin, with her cousin Lally Brennan, is a proprietor of Commander's Palace, Cafe Adelaide, and the Swizzle Stick Bar in the Loews New Orleans Hotel, with the outpost Brennan's of Houston run by Alex Brennan-Martin. Ti is also the author of Commander's Kitchen. The legendary Commander's Palace has won the James Beard Award for Most Outstanding Restaurant in America and was ranked #1 in New Orleans by Zagat seventeen times in a row. Log In to see more information about Ti Adelaide Martin It was the end of a New Orleans April night at Commander’s Palace and Ti Adelaide Martin was left asking herself a rather wistful question. “I thought to myself, how did I get this gig?” she says. Given that she is the daughter of the “grande dame” Ella Brennan, known simply as Miss Ella around these parts, there is no real mystery. But this was not a literal question. As Ti Martin walked from table to table, she was reminded again why the legendary family-run operation might not be utopia. “But it is as close as I’ve ever been to it,” she says. An ambassador was enjoying a dinner at one table. A lady checking off a box on her bucket list was at another. She then sent a couple celebrating their 55th anniversary onto the patio with some Champagne. READ MORE: Organized by era, these are the Top Independent Restaurants in the country. “It was just that everywhere I went was joy. And I literally say that about Commander’s. We have other restaurants and we work other places that we love and enjoy and have fun, but Commander’s Palace is just a happy place,” she says. “People are happy and excited to be there, and as long as we don’t muck it up, they leave the same way.” Commande
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