FLOTUS in Louisianna

[Playinghardball]

First Lady Michelle Obama hugs Naomi Bouie, 5, during her visit to Sterling Farms Grocery Store in Marrero, La


First Lady Michelle Obama talks with Wendell Pierce at Sterling Farms grocery store in Marrero. She visited the grocery story to continue highlighting a theme of healthy food access after she addressed the 2013 National Council of La Raza Conference at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Pierce serves on the board of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, and opened the grocery store to expand the healthy, affordable options available in a neighborhood affected by Hurricane Katrina.




….. a hug from Beasts of the Southern Wild actor Dwight Henry at Sterling Farms grocery store


…. Naomi Bouie, a 5-year-old Uptown resident wearing her blue Princess Jasmine costume modeled after the character from the animated movie Aladdin, gave Obama a prolonged hug as she continued greeting other shoppers.

Naomi’s mother and grandmother said afterward that they told her about Obama’s health and fitness campaign, which is called, Let’s Move!, and that the girl dutifully told the first lady that she loves broccoli….

Found on the ObamaDiary

[monmouth3]

1. I love the faces of all of those children but the Princess got to me. Too much cuteness going on...

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. Love her!

[KamaAina]

3. "and opened the grocery store... in a neighborhood affected by Hurricane Katrina."

Marrero is on the West Bank, across the Mississippi from New Orleans. It did not flood in Katrina. It is, though, a lower-income, largely African American area that fits the profile of a food desert; this store was a Winn-Dixie that closed.

Pierce plans to open stores in New Orleans proper, but apparently hasn't done so yet.