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Unforgettable Recipes from Susan Spicer's New Orleans
Knopf
October 2007
On Sale: October 23, 2007
416 pages ISBN: 1400043891 EAN: 9781400043897 Hardcover
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One of New Orleans’s brightest culinary stars, Susan
Spicer has been indulging Crescent City diners at her
highly acclaimed restaurants, Bayona and Herbsaint, for
years. Now, in her long-awaited cookbook, Spicer—an expert
at knocking cuisine off its pedestal with a healthy dash
of hot sauce, and at elevating comfort food to the level
of the sublime—brings her signature dishes to the home
cook’s table. Crescent City Cooking includes all the recipes that have
made Susan Spicer, and her restaurants, famous. Spicer
marries traditional Southern cooking with culinary
influences from around the world, and the result is New
Orleans cooking with gusto and flair. Each of her familiar
yet unique recipes is easy to make and wonderfully
memorable. Inside you’ll find :
• More than 170 recipes, ranging from traditional New
Orleans dishes (Cornmeal-Crusted Crayfish Pies and Cajun-
Spiced Pecans) to Susan’s very own twists on down-home
cuisine (Smoked Duck Hash in Puff Pastry with Apple Cider
Sauce; Grilled Shrimp with Black Bean Cakes and Coriander
Sauce) and, of course, a recipe for the best gumbo you’ve
ever tasted • Over 90 photographs by Times-Picayune photographer Chris
Granger, which display the vibrant city of New Orleans as
much as Spicer’s wonderfully offbeat yet classy way of
presenting her dishes • Instructions that make Spicer’s down-to-earth but
extraordinarily creative recipes easy to prepare. Spicer,
who cooks for two picky preteens and packs lunch every day
for her husband, knows how precious time can be and
understands just how much is enough There is something else of New Orleans—its spirit—that
imbues this book’s every useful tip and anecdote. The
strong culinary traditions of New Orleans are revived in
Crescent City Cooking, with recipes that are guaranteed to
comfort and surprise. This is some of the best food you’ll
ever taste, in what is certain to become the essential New
Orleans cookbook.
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