Table of Contents
Foreword 6
Preface 8
Introduction Janette Desautel 10
Janette Desautel
Oysters on the Half Shell with Yuzu Mignonette 17
Emeril's Tuna and Butter Lettuce Wraps 18
Peristyle's Jumbo Lump Crabmeat and Herb Salad over Chilled Roasted Beets and Pickled Onions 20
L'Hotel de France's Foie Gras in a Pumpkin Terrine 24
Seared Duck Breast on Green Onion Pancakes with Daikon Salad 27
Creole Crab-and-Corn Bisque 28
Patois Oyster Stew with Pan-Fried Grouper and Fried Parsnips 30
Yaka Mein 32
Ajan Étouffée 34
La Spiga's Sweet Potato Turnovers 36
Bayona's Sweet Potato Brioche 38
Domenica's Crispy Kale 39
Karma Kitchen's Husk-Wrapped Mushroom Boudin Tamales 40
Momofuku's Poached Eggs with Caviar 42
Soa's Garden Vegetable "Fettuccine" with Fresh Tomato Sauce 45
Herbsaint's Shrimp and Louisiana Brown Rice Risotto 46
Crawfish Ravioli with Sea Urchin Butter Sauce and Mississippi Paddlefish Roe 47
Clemenceau'd Shrimp 49
Peppy Lobsters 50
Listen-to-Your-Fish Fish 53
Le Bernardin's Pounded Tuna with Foie Gras 54
Genghis Khan's Whole Fried Fish 56
Grandmother Besh's Braised Rabbit with Cavatelli 58
MiLa's Chicory Coffee-Glazed Quail with Swiss Chard and Creamy Grits 60
Gabrielle's Slow-Roasted Duck with Cracklin' Skin 62
Paper-Skin Chicken and Rice-Flour Waffles with Asian-Cajun Red Pepper Syrup 65
Bacon-Wrapped Pork Loin with Smothered Greens, Butternut Squash, and Cane Syrup Jus 67
Peppered Hanger Steak with Crispy Rice Cakes 68
Gautreau's Citrus-Olive Oil Cake with Kumquat Marmalade and Almonds 70
Bayona's Café au Lait Pots de Crème with Mudslide Cookies 73
Thyme-Satsuma-Black Pepper Ice 75
The Food of the Streets 76
Antoine Batiste and Desiree
Dutch Mortal's Oyster Dressing 82
Tee's Smothered Okra 83
Creole Stuffed Bell Peppers 84
Smothered Cabbage with Onion and Bacon 85
Creole Succotash 87
Kermit Ruffins's Butter Beans 88
White Beans and Shrimp 89
Kermit Ruffins: Life is a Picnic Every Day 90
Toni and Creighton Bernette
Pecan Pancakes 94
Crawfish Calas with Green Garlic Mayonnaise 96
Upperline's Oysters St. Claude 98
Trout Farci 99
Pasta with Shrimp, Garlic, and Parsley 101
Commander's Palace Thanksgiving Dinner 102
Chunky Peanut Butter and Chocolaty Banana Cake 105
Brigtsen's Banana Bread Pudding 106
A Brief History of Bread Pudding 107
Jacques Jhoni
Oatmeal and Fresh Berry Parfaits with Chantilly Cream 111
Uptown Egg and Rice 112
Black Beans and Rum a la Austin Leslie 113
Bayona's Roasted Duck with Bourbon-Molasses Sauce and Sweet Potato Fries 114
Habanero-Laced Lamb Shanks with Spiced Couscous 116
The Great Gumbo Controversy 117
Pie Four Nuts 118
Pound Cake Paul Trevigne 119
Ladonna Batiste-Williams
Creole Gumbo 122
Smothered Turnip Soup 125
Jalapeno Cornbread 126
Yeast Calas 127
Potato Salad 128
Oven-Braised Turkey Necks 129
Cajun v. Creole (v. Alan Rickman) 130
Microwave Pralines 133
Davis Mcalary
Waffles (or Pancakes) Lafon 136
Bourbon House Trio of Oyster Shooters 137
Boucherie's Collard Greens with French Fried Grits 138
Eleven 79's Pasta Bolognese 140
Signature Sandwiches: Po-Boys, Poor Boys, and Muffalettas 141
Li'l Dizzy's Trout Baquet 142
Prejean's Pheasant-Quail-Andouille Gumbo 143
Albert Lambreaux
Carrot Casserole 146
Vegetarian Mustard Greens 147
Lambreaux's Cornbread 148
Cornbread-French Bread Dressing 149
How Do You Explain New Orleans' "French" Bread? 150
Stuffed Mirliton 153
Cushaw Pie 155
Dooky Chase's Gumbo Z'herbes 156
Annie Talarico
La Spiga's Buttermilk Biscuits 160
Beignets and Calas 163
Salad without Papers 164
Shrimp Bisque 166
Chicken Adobo 167
Terry Colson
Beignets 171
Restaurant Stanley's Chili-Prawn Po-Boy with Asian Slaw 172
Kitchen Witch's Hot and Cold Redfish Salad 174
Chicken Étouffée 175
Oyster Farmers: Croatian, Black, Vietnamese, and Cambodian 176
Sonny Schilder
Rodekool met Appels (Braised Red Cabbage with Apples) 181
Hachee met Leffe Bier (Beef Onion Stew with Dark Beer) 182
Bun (Vietnamese Vermicelli Salad with Beef) 183
Madame Bégué and the Invention of Brunch 184
Appeltaart (Dutch Apple Pie) 185
Delmond Lambreaux
Muscadine Wine Lemonade 188
Ruth's Garlicky White Shrimp Remoulade 189
Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse Tomato Napoleon 191
Zucchini and Shrimp Semplice 192
GW Fin's Grilled Lemon Fish with Thai-Style Mirliton Slaw, Blue Crab Fritters, and Chile Oil 194
Cochon's Braised Pig
with Stewed Turnips and Cabbage 197
Red Beans and Rice with Smoked Turkey Wings 198
Pork and Beans with Bacon and Onions 199
The Mirliton Missionary 200
Nelson Hidalgo
Ralph's on the Park's Crabmeat Lasagna 205
Mosca's Chicken a la Grande 206
Cousin Kami's Carne Guisada 207
New Orleans Cuisine: Caribbean or Southern? 208
Besh Steakhouse's Cowboy Steak with Wild Mushrooms, Root Vegetables, and Bordelaise Sauce 209
Aunt MiMi
Brandy Crusta 213
French 75 214
Absinthe Suissesse 214
Sazerac 215
Ramos Gin Fizz 216
Vieux Carré 216
Hurricane 217
The Casserole Cocktail 218
Congo Square Cooler 220
Ginger-Peach Julep 221
The Neutral Ground 221
Bittersweet Sour 222
Second Line Swizzler 222
N'awlins Nectar 223
Creole Sno-Ball 223
The Marsaw 224
McMillian 224
Hot-or-Cold Hendrick's #1 225
New Orleans and the Invention of the Cocktail 226
Basics
Basic Creole Seasoning Blend 228
Fish Stock 228
Shrimp Stock 229
Rich Shrimp Stock 229
Basic Chicken Stock 230
Veal Stock 230
Postscript 231
Acknowledgments 233
Index 234
Table of Equivalents 240
