very few other cities do

New Orleans inspires the kind of love that very few other cities do. Paris, maybe Venice, maybe, San Francisco, New York.... The list is not that much longer. New Orleans has a mythology, a personality, a soul, that is large, and that has touched people around the world. It has its own music (many of its own musics), its own cuisine, its own way of talking, its own architecture, its own smell, its own look and feel.



Tom Piazza, Why New Orleans Matters. Harper Perennial, 2008. p. xviii