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You go girl....Susan Spicer takes on BP
On Jun 29, 4:45*pm, A Moose In Love >
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> On Jun 29, 6:13*pm, ImStillMags > wrote:
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> > I have been a fan of Susan Spicer since she first got started in the
> > 80's in New Orleans. * By the time she opened her own place she had no
> > peer as far as I'm concernd.
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> >http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.c...rleans-chef-on...
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> > exerpt from the story....
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> > Susan Spicer did not intend to be the face of the restaurant rebellion
> > against BP over its role in the Gulf oil spill. But that’s what can
> > happen when you file a lawsuit.
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> > Ms. Spicer, long a respected New Orleans chef, spent most of Monday
> > huddled with her lawyers, trying to map out a strategy after word got
> > out that she was suing BP and several other companies on behalf of
> > Gulf restaurant owners and seafood suppliers.
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> > “I just hope that my motivations will not be misinterpreted,” she said
> > from her restaurant Bayona in her first interview since the suit was
> > filed Friday. “It’s more about solidarity in this region than about
> > getting my piece of the pie. I can’t say I expect to see a dollar out
> > of this thing. I am just angry.”
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> > Ms. Spicer’s attorney, Serena Pollack, filed the suit in New Orleans
> > federal court late Friday asking that the court grant class-action
> > status for restaurants and seafood sellers who have suffered in the
> > wake of the April 20 drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
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> > The lawyers are arguing that Ms. Spicer and other chefs in Louisiana
> > and the region have built a reputation and a business using fresh,
> > local seafood that is specific to the Gulf of Mexico. Since the oil
> > rig accident, that seafood has either become unavailable or
> > significantly more expensive.
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> you moron. *the word 'chef' means boss. *all you idiots what thinks
> 'chef' means some kind of cook you're imbeciles.
awww...no hug today?
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