New Orleans cuisine

By S. Frederick Starr, Susan Tucker

Subjects: American Cooking, Cookery, American -- Louisiana style -- History, Cooking, Cookery -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History, Cooking, american, louisiana, Louisiana style, History, Cookery, Cookery, American -- Louisiana style, Cookery -- Louisiana -- New Orleans

Description: "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 number one 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"--Page 2 of cover.