Picayune Creaole Cookbook (American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection) - Softcover

Picayune, Picayune

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486423247 ISBN 13: 9780486423241

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2003

Synopsis

One of the world's most unusual and exciting cooking styles, New Orleans Creole cookery blends a fantastic array of influences: Spanish spices, tropical fruits from Africa, native Choctaw Indian gumbos, and, most of all, a panoply of French styles, from the haute cuisine of Paris to the hearty fare of Provence. This is the book that preserved traditional Creole cooking from virtual extinction. At the turn of the twentieth century, a Crescent City newspaper, The Picayune, determined to gather "these excellent and matchless recipes of our New Orleans cuisine ... ere Creole cookery with all its delightful combinations and possibilities will have become a lost art." Collected directly from the cooks and housekeepers who were the finest practitioners of Creole cuisine, this volume is the bible of many a Louisiana cook and a delight to gourmets everywhere. Hundreds of enticing recipes include fine soups and gumbos, seafoods, all manner of meats, rice dishes and jambalayas, cakes and pastries, fruit drinks, French breads, and many other delectable dishes. A wealth of introductory material explains the traditional French manner of preparing foods, and a practical selection of full menus features suggestions for both everyday and festive meals. Dover (2002) unabridged republication of the 2nd (and best) 1901 edition. 464pp. 9.A. Paperbound.

About this title

Product Description:

Assembled at the turn of the 20th century by a Crescent City newspaper, The Picayune, this volume is the bible of many a Louisiana cook and a delight to gourmets everywhere. Hundreds of recipes include fine soups and gumbos, seafoods, all manner of meats, rice dishes and jambalayas, and many other dishes.

About the Author:

Established in 1837 by Francis Lumsden and George Wilkins Kendall, this newspaper published in New Orleans is now called the "Times-Picayune" after a merger with a rival paper, the New Orleans "Times-Democrat," in 1914. Its original price was a Spanish coin equivalent to $.0625, a picayune. Today, the paper is part of Advance Publications, owned by the Newhouse family."

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0486423247
• ISBN 13: 9780486423241
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464