Contributors
Our contributors give Inside New Orleans its voice, its personality and its feel. Here we are proud to highlight a some of them so that you can put a face with a name and get to know them.
Anna Tusa
Leslie Cardé
Sue Strachan
Anna Tusa is the Director of Operations for Briquette, the Briquette Wine Room and New Orleans Creole Cookery. On page 60, Anna mixes up classic cocktails.
Veteran journalist Leslie Cardé began her career reporting for NPR in Los Angeles. From there, she landed in New Orleans as an anchor/health and science editor before moving on to anchor three hours of daily financial news and host an entertainment show for CNBC. She’s reported from the Middle East for CNN, worked as a producer and narrator for E! Entertainment and wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary America Betrayed. Leslie currently writes for The New Orleans Advocate and Los Angeles Magazine. She is also a producer/ reporter for CBS Newspath. Read Leslie’s article about advances in breast care on page 31.
Sue Strachan has been writing about New Orleans culture for more than 25 years. 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. Sue is coming out with a book, Cafe Brûlot, in midSeptember. In this issue, Sue writes about the museums of the French Quarter on page 24.
Other Voices: Leah Draffen, Joni Friedmann-Lagasse, Melanie Langteau, Lorin Gaudin, Thomas B. Growden, Alison Burns Schonk and Jeff Strout.
