Gourmet’s Guide to New Orleans: Creole Cookbook

the great New Orleans Creole cookbooks, this fabulous volume contains hundreds of time-tested recipes for which the city is famous. This collection of culinary delights, now in its twenty-third printing, includes the personal recipes of New Orleans’ most celebrated hosts and renowned restaurateurs. The specialties of Antoine’s, Arnaud’s, Galatoire’s, Brennan’s, Dunbar’s, the Pontchartrain-in short, every great New Orleans restaurant, as well as many fine but unheralded dining establishments-are presented here. Here are the secrets that, as the late Dorothy Dix declares in the foreword, have enabled cooking in New Orleans to reach a “degree of perfection . . . not attained anywhere else in this country.”