No offense to the people who live and love Mississippi but I have to say the food and the markets suck there!
New York has some of the most finest eateries in the US.
You won't ever find Italian Food in MS like NYC....
Oh and the shopping as well no comparrison.
It's just whatever floats your boat I guess.
You can't get decent chicken fried steak in NYC.
Oh, there are pockets of it here and there throughout the state, wherever Italian immigrants settled after arriving in Louisiana and moving on.
I don't think, however, that NYC can compare in the availability of the delicacy that is Gulf Shrimp, or in those dishes in which they are used.
We can drive 70 miles west and eat food in New Orleans that will rival that of anywhere in the world... and I have eaten at the finest restaurants in Paris... yep, a Mississippian in Paris... we can eat the finest seafood in the world here, and we even have Emeril Lagasse cooking for us!
Did you know that Emeril and his parents live in Mississippi and lost homes in Pass Christian during Katrina. Did you know that after Katrina he actually cooked for survivors along the coast?
If we want St. John's clothing, Neman Marcus merchadise, Bruno Mali shoes, Bulgari watches, Louis Vuitton handbags (and any other snotty elitist stuff), we actually have wideband Internet and American Express Platinum cards. Imagine that!
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