Eating New Orleans: From French Quarter Creole Dining to the Perfect Poboy [Paperback]

Pableaux Johnson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 21, 2005

This guide to the city's legendary restaurant scene, distinctive food culture, and renowned barrooms includes more than 100 restaurant entries that take readers to the eateries where authentic Louisiana cuisine lives and breathes--from the French Quarter's white-linen Creole institutions to the funky family-owned joints that locals call home. Equal parts travel book and food guide, food writer Pableaux Johnson provides plenty of tips for the hungry traveler, guiding them to both the culinary hot spots and to lesser-known neighborhoods. Maps and browser-friendly lists provide valuable context, while short features explain the city's distinctive specialty dishes, native ingredients, and signature celebrations (Mardi Gras and JazzFest to name only two). "Eating New Orleans also tells the story of rustic Cajun cuisine and the influence of this distinctive "bayou country food" on New Orleans's temples of high cuisine, and includes a quick side trip to the cradle of Cajun cuisine--the coastal marshes and broad prairies of Acadian Louisiana.

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About the Author

Pableaux Johnson is a food and travel writer and author of several books on Louisiana food. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Texas Monthly, Cooking Light, and Coastal Living. He is the author of Lonely Planet's World Food New Orleans and Blue Marble Music's Legends of New Orleans. He was a nominee for a 2004 James Beard Journalism Award. He lives in New Orleans.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Countryman Press (June 21, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 088150629X
• ISBN-13: 978-0881506297
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,037,496 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A window into the cuisine and culture that make New Orleans such a treasure, March 2, 2006

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Nancie S. Mcdermott - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eating New Orleans: From French Quarter Creole Dining to the Perfect Poboy (Paperback)

Eating New Orleans is a feast--a terrific read brimming everything that's worth knowing about the Crescent City's unique universe of food. It deliverse a full course meal of facts, legends, and stories, seasoned with portraits of the people, unique ingredients, and classic dishes that make New Orleans a place unlike any other in the world. Mr. Johnson writes about his city with extraordinary insight, knowledge, humor, and passion. Before Katrina this book had tremendous practical value. Now it is a treasure. It provides a unique and precious window into a world in transition: a history of what was, a handbook to what is, and a guide to the culinary world that we as Americans can and must revive, restore, and renew in this Living National Treasure of a City, New Orleans.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you are to dine in New Orleans you must have this book, August 1, 2005

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joe don (texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eating New Orleans: From French Quarter Creole Dining to the Perfect Poboy (Paperback)

There is no more fun place to dine anywhere on earth than New Orleans, Louisiana. This book has great advice on all the restaurants one should consider and I mean all of them. You may be asking yourself what a Texas redneck knows about Creole food and I say plenty it has been a passion of mine for quite some time. Pableaux has done a fantastic job in this book and it is a must have if your into food in New Orleans. Dont leave home without this book if you are a novice on New Orleans cuisine.