Contributors

Our contributors give Inside New Orleans its voice, its personality and its feel. Here we are proud to highlight a few of them so that you can put a face with a name and get to know them.

Anna Tusa

Anna Tusa is the Director of Operations for Briquette, the Briquette Wine Room and New Orleans Creole Cookery. On page 60, Anna pairs whiskey cocktails with local pizza slices. Ingrid Rinck is a self-made entrepreneur and CEO of Sensible Meals and has been helping people eat healthier and achieve their weight loss goals since 2014. Read about Ingrid’s newest business on page 49.

Sue Strachan

Sue Strachan has been writing about New Orleans culture for more than 25 years. This is her first article for Inside New Orleans. Sue has been an editor and writer for a number of locally-based publications including Uptown/Mid-City Messenger, St. Charles Avenue magazine, New Orleans Magazine, New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles, Preservation in Print, Louisiana Life, and was society editor for the TimesPicayune for five years. Her work has been seen internationally in Time Asia and HG magazine. She is regularly featured on Hollywood Highlights on WWL-TV’s Great Day Louisiana. In this issue, Sue chats with pet owners and their furry family

Ingrid Rinck

members on page 22.

Mimi Greenwood Knight

Mimi Greenwood Knight is a freelance writer and recent empty nester. She and her husband, David, live on a hobby farm in Folsom. Mimi is blessed to have thousands of articles and essays published in national and regional magazines, as well as anthologies and Christian devotionals. When not writing, she enjoys the “home arts” of cooking, canning, gardening, knitting, chicken wrangling and beekeeping. Mimi talks about the French Market’s 200-year anniversary on page 28.