| New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories Contributor(s): Tucker, Susan (Editor), Starr, S. Frederick (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1604731273 ISBN-13: 9781604731279 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $25.20 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2009 Annotation: Essays dishing up how New Orleans created its unequaled culinary mystique |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | Regional & Ethnic - Cajun & Creole - Cooking | Regional & Ethnic - American - Southern States - Cooking | History |
| Dewey: 641.597 |
| LCCN: 2008020120 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9" (1.20 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
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| Publisher Description: With contributions from Karen Leathem, Patricia Kennedy Livingston, Michael Mizell-Nelson, Cynthia LeJeune Nobles, Sharon Stallworth Nossiter, Sara Roahen, and Susan Tucker New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories provides essays on the unparalleled recognition New Orleans has achieved as the Mecca of mealtime. Devoting each chapter to a signature cocktail, appetizer, sandwich, main course, staple, or dessert, contributors from the New Orleans Culinary Collective plate up the essence of the Big Easy through its best-known export: great cooking. This book views the city's cuisine as a whole, forgetting none of its flavorful ethnic influences--French, African American, German, Italian, Spanish, and more. In servings of such well-recognized foods as shrimp remoulade, Creole tomato salad, turtle soup, and bread pudding, contributors explore a broad range of issues. Essays consider the history of refrigeration and ice in the city, famous restaurants, cooking schools, and the differences between Cajun and Creole cuisines. Biographical sketches of New Orleans's luminaries--including Mary Land, Corinne Dunbar, and Lena Richard--give personality to the stories. Recipes for each dish or beverage, drawn from historical cookbooks and contemporary chefs, complete the package. New Orleans Cuisine shows how ingredients, ethnicities, cooks, chefs, and consumers all converged over time to make the city a culinary capital. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tucker, Susan: - Susan Tucker is curator of books and records at the Newcomb Center for Research on Women at Tulane University.Starr, S. Frederick: - S. Frederick Starr is chair of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University and the author or editor of many books on New Orleans and Louisiana, including Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn (University Press of Mississippi). |