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Out To Lunch: Jazz Fest Economy

Monica Davidson, Frank Relle and Peter Ricchiuti.
Grant Morris
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It's New Orleans
Monica Davidson, Frank Relle and Peter Ricchiuti.
Monica Davidson, Frank Relle and Peter Ricchiuti.
Credit Grant Morris / It's New Orleans
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It's New Orleans
Monica Davidson, Frank Relle and Peter Ricchiuti.

When you go to Jazz Fest do you have stuff youhaveto do? Is there one band you have to see or one food item you have to eat? For many people that annual treat is Crawfish Monica. It's one of Jazz Fest’s most popular dishes.

On this edition of Out to Lunch we don’t have crawfish, but we do have Monica.Out To Lunch: Jazz Fest Economy

Monica Davidson, the Monica from Crawfish Monica and co-owner ofKajunKettle Foods, joins Peter for lunch.

Frank Relle is also Peter's guest today. If you don’t know Frank’s name you probably know his iconic New Orleans and Louisiana photos.

If you’ve been to Jazz Fest in the last eleven years you’ve seen Frank out there selling them. You might also have seen Frank’s photos in the New York Times, or at Kanye West’s house the last time you were over there.

In the You Heard It Here First segment of the show, Peter indtroduces Ellio Blox, co-founder of Acrodisiac.

Hear a longer conversation with Peter, Blox, Monica and Frank here.

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Peter Ricchiuti is the finance professor you wish you had back in college! His insight and humor have twice made him the top professor at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business. After a successful career on Wall Street, Ricchiuti served for five years as Assistant State Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer for the State of Louisiana. There he skillfully managed the State's $3 billion investment portfolio.