(Food writer) Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy has been in the book business since shortly after the Earth cooled (June 8th, 1981). His first 13 years were with Random House, where he was a VP of Sales. He went on to become the Publisher of William Morrow. After Morrow's acquisition by NewsCorp and merger into HarperCollins, Michael set up his own literary agency, Max & Co. He and his family left New York and moved to New Orleans in 2009, the year the Saints finally won a Super Bowl. Michael had felt the city was "Home" the first time he came to the city in 1983. Now here, they are never leaving.

EAT DAT, the story-filled portrait of New Orleans' restaurants, food carts, pop-ups along with chefs, waiters, & oyster shuckers, is conceived as the first of a New Orleans Trilogy, or Dat-Rilogy. HEAR DAT (New Orleans music scene) and FEAR DAT (VooDoo, vampires, graveyards, & ghosts) are to follow. These three areas are the primary reasons New Orleans draws over 9 million visitors each year.

EAT DAT is brought fully to life by over 50 stunning photographs by Rick Olivier