Tom Fitzmorris's Hungry Town: A Culinary History of New Orleans, the City Where Food Is Almost Everything

A cuisine lover's history of New Orleans—from the Creole craze to rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina—from one of the city's best-known food critics.

Tom Fitzmorris covers the New Orleans food scene like powdered sugar covers a beignet. For more than forty years he's written a weekly restaurant review, but he's best known for his long-running radio talk show devoted to New Orleans restaurants and cooking.

In Tom Fitzmorris's Hungry Town, Fitzmorris movingly describes the disappearance o...