Tom Fitzmorris, the editor of The New Orleans Menu, has a one-track mind. He's written and broadcast more about New Orleans food than any other journalist. His weekly restaurant review column, published without a break since 1972, is the longest-running such column in America. He is the author of seventeen restaurant guidebooks, four cookbooks, and hundreds of articles about eating in New Orleans.

Tom founded The New Orleans Menu in 1977 as a four-page newsletter. It grew into a magazine, and evolved over the years into a daily newsletter on the web. He writes every word of it.

Tom is best known, though, for his unique daily radio gig, The Food Show. For three hours a day, six days a week, avid diners and cooks call Tom on the air and compare notes about restaurants, cooking, wine, and food.

Tom was born in New Orleans on Mardi Gras in 1951, and had never left town for more than three weeks at a time until Hurricane Katrina. He is married to former radio talk show host Mary Ann Connell Fitzmorris. They have a son and a daughter, and live in the countryside north of New Orleans. Some terrific, meaty bolete mushrooms grow there.

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