River Road Plantation Country Cookbook
"Anne Butler's series of cookbooks contains much more than recipes. Anne is a raconteur who weaves history, customs, architecture, photography, people, and recipes into intriguing tales of Louisiana lore. Her most recent addition to the series is a tour of the River Road plantation country in words and pictures. You don't need to be a chef to like this book." -Lloyd Sensat, tour guide, artist, educator, and preservationist "Anne Butler lives the life that she writes about: excellent historian, chef, host, and keeper of the secrets of life on the great Mississippi River Road. Her cookbooks present the complete experience." -Eugene D. Cizek, F.A.I.A., Richard Koch Chair in Architecture and director, preservation studies at Tulane University School of Architecture "River Road Plantation Country Cookbook is a wonderful book with a most misleading title. I opened the first pages expecting the typical Louisiana recipes, but what I found was anything but typical. Each chapter of the book tells a part of Louisiana's rich history or traditions and then cleverly segues into companion recipes. What a unique concept for a cookbook!" -Jane Thomas, chairman, Friends of Magnolia Mound Plantation, Inc. Whether culled from treasured plantation family recipes or provided by professional chefs such as Leah Chase of Dooky Chase or Jeremy Langlois of Latil's Landing Restaurant at Houmas House, the recipes in this book reflect the proud heritage along Louisiana's River Road. Together, the recipes, stories, histories, and vintage photographs provide a deeper understanding of the culture that is as rich as the river waters that gave rise to it. There is nothing quite like it. Back Flap Wishing to share the history of Louisiana and of her own family, Anne Butler operates a bed and breakfast on the Butler Greenwood Plantation, which dates to the 1790s. She claims to now know "just about everything there is to know about the area" and is spreading her knowledge farther through her award-winning children's books, travel books, and cookbooks. Her first cookbook, Audubon Plantation Country Cookbook, named Best New Cookbook of the Year by Louisiana Life magazine, includes history, humor, people, places, vintage photographs, and, of course, delicious recipes to create a wonderful view of life in Audubon plantation country. Louisiana Life describes her work as "an illustrated gastronomic tour of this area's society, culture, and economics . . . a veritable social history in the guise of a cookbook."   This is the fourth in Anne Butler's popular series of tour books on Louisiana's culinary culture, which also includes Bayou Plantation Country Cookbook and Acadian Plantation Country Cookbook. Butler is the author of the memoir Weep for the Living.