| Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table Contributor(s): Roahen, Sara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393335372 ISBN-13: 9780393335378 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: Celebrating New Orleans food culture, one specialty at a time, Roahens stories of personal discovery in her beloved adopted city introduce readers to New Orleans well-known signatures--gumbo, po-boys, red beans and rice--and its lesser-known gems. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | Regional & Ethnic - Cajun & Creole - Cooking | Essays & Narratives |
| Dewey: 398.209 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 4.3" W x 9.2" (0.55 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A cocktail is more than a segue to dinner when it's a Sazerac, an anise-laced drink of rye whiskey and bitters indigenous to New Orleans. For Wisconsin native Sara Roahen, a Sazerac is also a fine accompaniment to raw oysters, a looking glass into the cocktail culture of her own family--and one more way to gain a foothold in her beloved adopted city. Roahen's stories of personal discovery introduce readers to New Orleans' well-known signatures--gumbo, po-boys, red beans and rice--and its lesser-known gems: the pho of its Vietnamese immigrants, the braciolone of its Sicilians, and the ya-ka-mein of its street culture. By eating and cooking her way through a place as unique and unexpected as its infamous turducken, Roahen finds a home. And then Katrina. With humor, poignancy, and hope, she conjures up a city that reveled in its food traditions before the storm--and in many ways has been saved by them since. |
Contributor Bio(s): Roahen, Sara: - Sara Roahen's work has appeared in Tin House, Oxford American, and Food & Wine magazines. She and her husband moved back to New Orleans in 2008. |