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2013

Format:	Book
Author:	Williams, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Marie), 1950- author.
Title:	New Orleans : a food biography / Elizabeth M. Williams.
Publisher, Date:	Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013] ©2013.
Description:	xx, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary:	"Elizabeth M. Williams, a New Orleans native and founder of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum there, takes readers through the history of the city, showing how the natural environment and people have shaped the cooking we all love."--From publisher description.
Series:	AltaMira studies in food and gastronomy Big city food biographies series Studies in food and gastronomy.
Subjects:	Food -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History. Cooking, American -- Louisiana style -- History. Cooking -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History. Food habits -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History. New Orleans (La.) -- History.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index.
Contents:	Introduction: a real cuisine -- The material resources -- The first inhabitants and their foodways -- The old world and the new -- Immigrants: their neighborhoods and contributions -- Markets, retailing, and "making groceries" -- Restaurants -- Drinking in New Orleans -- Cooking at home and cookbooks -- Signature foods and dishes.
LCCN:	2012034857
ISBN:	9780759121362 (cloth : alk. paper) 0759121362 (cloth : alk. paper)
Other Number:	806017595
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	536035
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Call Number:	641.59763 Williams

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