You Are Where You Eat: Stories and Recipes from the Neighborhoods of New Orleans

About this book

Eating and cooking well are not just industries but ways of life for all New Orleans. Writer and photographer Elsa Hahne has visited the kitchens of thirty-three of New Orleanss home cooks and raconteurs and has served up an expansive smorgasbord inspired by this vibrant citys love affair with food. Almost every cultural group that has made its mark on New Orleans is represented in these pages: Creole African American Native American Isleo German Cajun Italian Irish Greek Hungarian Croatian Cuban Honduran Mexican Indian Filipino Chinese Vietnamese and more. With thirty-three first-person accounts and over one hundred black-and-white and full-color photographs You Are Where You Eat proves that the local population remains as passionate about cooking after the hurricanes of 2005 as at any time before. Among the eighty-five recipes are such classic New Orleans dishes as red beans and rice catfish court bouillon crawfish bisque fil gumbo grillades and daube glac but also more recent arrivals to local tables: yakamein pork tamales crawfish samosas and Vietnamese spring rolls.