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Antoine's Cookbook: Antoine's Restaurant Since 1840 Cookbook Review

Antoine's Cookbook: Antoine's Restaurant Since 1840 Cookbook
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I purchased Antoine's Restaurant cookbook because I loved my visit to New Orleans and found the food served in it's restaurants to be superb. This particular cookbook is delightful in its historical information, the wonderful illustrations and it's very basic New Orleans cuisine. I found some recipes I would fix but many of the recipes are too simple. If you want a unique, New Orleans way to fix green beans, don't look in this cookbook. The green bean recipe is just that.."Green Beans with butter". Boil the beans until tender, drain and add melted butter. Thats it. The section on sauces is interesting but when fixing many of the entre's you have to go back and forth looking up the separate sauce recipes to add to the main entre' recipe. For example, the main recipe is on page 76 but the sauce is on page 124. I like everything on the same page when I'm cooking. Simple dishes are sometimes the best but most of the dishes featured in this cookbook aren't very exciting. It is a nice cookbook to add to a collection because of the history behind the restaurant but not necessarily for it's unique recipes.

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Creole Gumbo and All That Jazz: A New Orleans Seafood Cookbook Review

Creole Gumbo and All That Jazz: A New Orleans Seafood Cookbook
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I have used this book fro over a decade and am about to order a fresh copy. It is a great read and a great, practical cookbook. I have used it constantly.

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This delicious compilation is cooked with aroux of raconteur Howard Mitcham's wit and served with a side dish of jazzhistory and lyrics.As an appetizer, Mitcham traces the development of thecuisine that made New Orleans famous and the history of the people who broughttheir native cookery to the melting pot that makes New Orleans a living gumbo.For the main course, he puts together a cornucopia of local delights that areready to prepare in any kitchen.A dazzling array of photos, foods, and far-out folklore, spiced up withtidbits of jazz history and lyrics, comprises a seafood cookbook thatcelebrates the world-famous cookery of New Orleans. Howard Mitcham offers morethan 300 enticing dishes, from crab gumbo and shrimp-oyster jambalaya tobarbecued red snapper and trout amandine.Mitcham traces the development of sophisticated Creole cooking and itsrambunctious country cousin, Cajun cooking, with innumerable anecdotes,pictures, and recipes. Along the way, he offers a list of substitutes forhard-to-find seafoods, a bibliography, and a guide to the best mail-orderseafood markets in New Orleans.Howard Mitcham, renowned chef, poet, artist, and storyteller, has practicedthe inventive art of New Orleans cuisine for three decades."A delightful book with excellent recipes..."Mimi Sheraton, The New York Times" Creole Gumbo is more than a cookbook. It isa history book, a music lesson and a personality profile of greatjazzmen."The Today Show

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