Nana's Creole Italian Table: Recipes and Stories from Sicilian New Orleans

From meatball po’boys to Creole red gravy, the influence of Sicilian foodways permeates New Orleans, one of America’s greatest food cities. Nana’s Creole Italian Table tells the story of those immigrants and their communities through the lens of food, exploring the ways traditional Sicilian dishes such as pasta and olive salad became a part of—and were in turn changed by—the existing food culture in New Orleans.

Sicilian immigrants—Elizabeth M. Williams’s family among them—came to New Orlean...