Cooking Up a Storm: New Orleans Recipes for Recovery

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After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, thousands of people lost their keepsakes and family treasures forever. As residents started to rebuild their lives, The Times-Picayune of New Orleans became a post-hurricane swapping place for old recipes that were washed away in the storm. The newspaper has compiled 250 of these delicious, authentic recipes along with the stories about how they came to be and who created them. Cooking Up a Storm includes the very best of classic and contemporary New Orleans ...
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Overview

After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, thousands of people lost their keepsakes and family treasures forever. As residents started to rebuild their lives, The Times-Picayune of New Orleans became a post-hurricane swapping place for old recipes that were washed away in the storm. The newspaper has compiled 250 of these delicious, authentic recipes along with the stories about how they came to be and who created them. Cooking Up a Storm includes the very best of classic and contemporary New Orleans cuisine, from seafood and meat to desserts and cocktails. But it also tells the story, recipe by recipe, of one of the great food cities in the world, and the determination of its citizens to preserve and safeguard their culinary legacy.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780811865777
  • Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
  • Publication date: 10/29/2008
  • Edition description: Original
  • Pages: 368
  • Sales rank: 106,876
  • Product dimensions: 7.90 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Marcelle Bienvenu writes the popular "Cooking Creole" column for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, and has collaborated with Chef Emeril Lagasse on several of his cookbooks. She lives in St. Martinville, Louisiana.

Judy Walker is the food editor of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans. She is the author or co-author of five cookbooks on the food of the Southwest.

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  • Posted August 8, 2009

    What a gift to Katrina survivors and to all of us who love New Orleans cuisine!

    "Cooking Up A Storm" is a remarkble tribute to New Orleans, a great city with great food, and, most important to the cooks who gave it character and gutsy flavor. The recipes are exceptional because they are derived from requests from those who lost their treasured recipes after Hurricane Katrina.

    This book won't replace the actual clipped and hand-written recipes treasured and passed down by generations of New Orleans home cooks, restaurateurs and bakers, but they help to carry on a remarkable gastronomic tradition.

    Each recipe is accompanied by its background and how and why it was selected for incusion in the book.

    Toques off to Marcelle Bienenu and Judy Walker and to the New Orleans Times Picayune for letting the good times and good food keep on rolling along!

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 30, 2009

    I Also Recommend:

    Who's Your Mama, Are You Catholic, and Can You Make a Roux? (Book 1): A Cajun/Creole Family Album Cookbook

    Cooking up a Storm by Marcelle Bienvenu, Judy Walker

    I love this cookbook. I'm originally from Louisiana and found many of the favorite dishes I grew up with, along with some wonderful new dishes. All of the recipes I have tried have been wonderful. My daughter is getting married soon and already has a copy as well as several other family members and coworkers. Reading this cookbook reminds me of how special the people of Louisiana are and how food plays such a vital role in our culture.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 2, 2009

    Great Cookbook!

    I purchased this book recently for my wife and she loves it. Now she can throw away all her recipe clippings from the T-P since they are all in one book now. Excellent for anyone who lost their recipes in Katrina and didn't know how they would ever replace them.

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  • Posted January 7, 2012

    Every recipe is delicious!

    Have yet to try a recipe I haven't liked! One of my "go to" cookbooks! I highly recommend this book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 9, 2009

    AMAZING!!

    This cookbook gives me good home cooking recipes from my younger years!!

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