num_pages: 294
description:  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.
language: English
title: Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table
publisher: W. W. Norton  Company