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

Synopsis

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 of New Orleans&’s food culture in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina—and its triumphant comeback, an essential element in the city&’s recovery. He leads up to the disaster with a history of New Orleans dining prior, including the opening of restaurants by big-name chefs like Paul Prudhomme and Emeril Lagasse. Fitzmorris&’s coverage of the heroic return of his beloved city&’s chefs after Katrina highlights the importance of local cooking traditions to a community. The book also includes some of the author&’s favorite local recipes and numerous sidebars informed by his long career writing about the Big Easy. &“New Orleanians are passionate about a lot of things, especially food! Nobody understands this better than Tom Fitzmorris. In Hungry Town, Tom gives readers insight into this amazing and one-of-a-kind city, and shows how food and the restaurant industry helped the city to survive and thrive after Katrina.&” —Emeril Lagasse, chef, restaurateur, and TV host

Copyright:

2010

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

224 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781613127971

Publisher:

ABRAMS, Inc.

Date of Addition:

12/18/24

Copyrighted By:

Tom Fitzmorris

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Travel, Cooking, Food and Wine

Reading Age:

0 and up

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.