Rita Harper

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Walker Mimms |Rita Harper

"I don't know how to write," Mary Flannery O'Connor once said. "But I can draw."She had just become a cartoonist for her high school newspaper, at Peabody High School in Milledgeville, Ga. There, and later at Georgia State College for Women, she hoped to place her linoleum-block-print satires of campus life in The New Yorker.

Feb 14, 2023 | nytimes.com | Brett Anderson |Rita Harper

NEW ORLEANS — The first dish served at Dakar NOLA is called Last Meal. It’s a soup of black-eyed peas, crispy rice and Louisiana blue crab, with robust spicing that recalls this city’s famous gumbos. Chances are you’ll still be thinking about it days later. Last Meal is that delicious — and even more unsettling. It is inspired by ndambe, a dish that Dakar NOLA’s chef, Serigne Mbaye, ate while growing up in Senegal.