Gumbo Tales or River Road Recipes II

Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table

Author: Sara Roahen

Celebrating New Orleans' food culture, one specialty at a time.

A cocktail is more than a segue to dinner when it's a Sazerac, an anise-laced drink of rye whiskey and bitters indigenous to New Orleans. For Wisconsin native Sara Roahen, a Sazerac is also a fine accompaniment to raw oysters, a looking glass into the cocktail culture of her own family—and one more way to gain a foothold in her beloved adopted city.

Roahen's stories of personal discovery introduce readers to New Orleans' well-known signatures—gumbo, po-boys, red beans and rice—and its lesser-known gems: the pho of its Vietnamese immigrants, the braciolone of its Sicilians, and the ya-ka-mein of its street culture. By eating and cooking her way through a place as unique and unexpected as its infamous turducken, Roahen finds a home. And then Katrina. With humor, poignancy, and hope, she conjures up a city that reveled in its food traditions before the storm—and in many ways has been saved by them since.

The Washington Post - Jonathan Yardley

…[an] informative, engaging and amusing book about the cooking of New Orleans…[Roahen] seems to have read just about every book on New Orleans and its food—there are plenty to read—and, as the whole of Gumbo Tales makes plain, she learned well…New Orleans, I suspect, will…be grateful to Sara Roahen for this lovely, heartfelt, quietly passionate book. She may not be a child of New Orleans, but by the end of Gumbo Tales one can't help thinking she's an adopted daughter.

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River Road Recipes II: A Second Helping

Author: Junior Leagu

Cajun cooking at its best, reflecting French, Spanish and American influences. Combined sales of RRR I and RRR II exceed 1.5 million, proving this to be another winner. Inducted into the Walter S. McIlhenny Cookbook Hall of Fame.