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Community rallies around New Orleans favorite Hubig's Pies

Written by Judy Walker, The Times-Picayune

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New Orleans' collective food psyche suffered a body blow last week when the Hubig's Pies bakery burned down. Of course, the family-owned business is feeling the pain most severely.

"We are going to do our best to come back and operate stronger and better than we did, where we did," General manager Drew Ramsey said earlier this week. "The plan right now is to be a better Hubig's Pies as soon as possible,"

It's too soon to tell when that might be, he added. A standard investigation of the fire is under way, so the owners haven't yet been able to see if anything can be salvaged after the five-alarm blaze.

After that's done, the family will begin tackling rebuilding hurdles.

"City Hall, collectively, has been really wonderful," Ramsey said. "Everybody in the community has been wonderful. We've had (city) council members that are not even our council members contact us and show up on the scene, and representatives from the mayor's office; the mayor himself reached out to us, and the head of code enforcement."

The tremendous outpouring of support has been "truly overwhelming," Ramsey said. It's been clear since Hubig's return after Hurricane Katrina that its customers have "an emotional attachment to us ... and we were going to be part of the fabric of this community in perpetuity.

"But in Katrina, everybody suffered and was under tremendous stress. Not to dismiss the goodwill that came out of Katrina, but your neighbor was suffering, your employer was suffering. ... Now, people had time to come down to the fire and time to send an email and write a letter to say 'My grandfather worked there.' It's really something."

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