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Book Lafcadio Hearn s Creole Cook Book

Download or read book Lafcadio Hearn s Creole Cook Book written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Classic Recipes. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Creole cookbook ever written, Lafcadio Hearn's Creole Cookbook"is an intriguing look into the customs and habits of the Creole home of the 1870s and 80s. Lafcadio Hearn, a unique literary figure who through his writings captured the essence of the city of New Orleans, was a great connoisseur of food. A starving newspaper reporter with little means of support, Hearn began his connoisseurship out of a literal hunger for the cuisine of New Orleans. The result was La Cuisine Creole,a labor of love now reprinted as Lafcadio Hearn's Creole Cookbook,that for the modern reader offers an unusual look into the food, customs, and everyday life of New Orleans Creole society. Spiced with drawings and writings from Hearn's years in New Orleans and preserved in their original form, the recipes in this unique volume reflect the age in which they were created. Through his remarks on preparation, cooking, and storing, as well as hints on housecleaning, Hearn's text offers a remarkable historic vision of life in the Creole household of yesteryear. Tempting recipes for "Orange Croquante," "Maigre Shrimp Gombo for Lent," "Mushroom Catsup," "Pain Perdu," and other noted New Orleans dishes are mixed with quaint, now forgotten housekeeping directions from his period-how to make yeast, boil soap, and prepare whitewash for the walls. This book is an attractive historical addition to any cookbook library and a long-lasting treasure trove of old New Orleans customs.

Book La Cuisine Creole

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lafcadio Hearn
  • Publisher : Applewood Books
  • Release : 2007-10
  • ISBN : 1429090111
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book La Cuisine Creole written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering collection of recipes of New Orleans, Creole cuisine.

Book Lafcadio Hearn s Creole Cook Book

Download or read book Lafcadio Hearn s Creole Cook Book written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book La Cuisine Creole

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lafcadio Hearn
  • Publisher : Andrews Mcmeel+ORM
  • Release : 2014-04-15
  • ISBN : 1449454534
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book La Cuisine Creole written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Andrews Mcmeel+ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in New Orleans in 1885, one of the great classics of Creole cuisine, believed to be the first Creole cookbook in print. Although La Cuisine Creole was printed anonymously in 1885, Lafcadio Hearn is generally accepted as the author of this Creole culinary classic. In his introduction, Hearn describes the intriguing origin of this unique cuisine, explaining that, “it partakes of the nature of its birthplace—New Orleans—which is cosmopolitan in its nature, blending the characteristics of the American, French, Spanish, Italian, West Indian and Mexican . . . There are also obvious influences from Native Americans, African Americans, and others in the American melting pot.” Among the “many original recipes and other valuable ones heretofore unpublished” included in the book are Gombo file, Bouille-abaisse, Courtbouillon, Jambolaya, Salade a la Russe, Bisque of Gray-fish a la Creole, Pousse Café, Café brule, Okra Gombo, Grenouilles Frites, Pain Perdu, Sangaree, and a marvelous collection of fish, seafood, and game recipes. There are also instructions on “The Service of Wine” and a large number of recipes for drinks and cocktails. This edition of La Cuisine Creole by Lafcadio Hearn was reproduced by permission from the volume in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, founded in 1812.

Book Lafcadio Hearn s Creole Cook Book

Download or read book Lafcadio Hearn s Creole Cook Book written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inventing New Orleans

Download or read book Inventing New Orleans written by S. Frederick Starr and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) prowled the streets of New Orleans from 1877 to 1888 before moving on to a new life and global fame as a chronicler of Japan. Hearn's influence on our perceptions of New Orleans, however, has unjustly remained unknown. In ten years of serving as a correspondent and selling his writing in such periodicals as the New Orleans Daily Item, Times-Democrat, Harper's Weekly, and Scribner's Magazine he crystallized the way Americans view New Orleans and its south Louisiana environs. Hearn was prolific, producing colorful and vivid sketches, vignettes, news articles, essays, translations of French and Spanish literature, book reviews, short stories, and woodblock prints. He haunted the French Quarter to cover such events as the death of Marie Laveau. His descriptions of the seamy side of New Orleans, tainted with voodoo, debauchery, and mystery made a lasting impression on the nation. Denizens of the Crescent City and devotees who flock there for escapades and pleasures will recognize these original tales of corruption, of decay and benign frivolity, and of endless partying. With his writing, Hearn virtually invented the national image of New Orleans as a kind of alternative reality to the United States as a whole. S. Frederick Starr, a leading authority on New Orleans and Louisiana culture, edits the volume, adding an introduction that places Hearn in a social, historical, and literary context. Hearn was sensitive to the unique cultural milieu of New Orleans and Louisiana. During the decade that he spent in New Orleans, Hearn collected songs for the well-known New York music critic Henry Edward Krehbiel and extensively studied Creole French, making valuable and lasting contributions to ethnomusicology and linguistics. Hearn's writings on Japan are famous and have long been available. But Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn brings together a selection of Hearn's nonfiction on New Orleans and Louisiana, creating a previously unavailable sampling. In these pieces Hearn, an Anglo-Greek immigrant who came to America by way of Ireland, is alternately playful, lyrical, and morbid. This gathering also features ten newly discovered sketches. Using his broad stylistic palette, Hearn conjures up a lost New Orleans which later writers such as William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams used to evoke the city as both reality and symbol.

Book The Sweetest Fruits

    Book Details:
  • Author : Monique Truong
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2019-09-03
  • ISBN : 0735221030
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Sweetest Fruits written by Monique Truong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sublime, many-voiced novel of voyage and reinvention" (Anthony Marra) "[Truong] imagines the extraordinary lives of three women who loved an extraordinary man [and] creates distinct, engaging voices for these women" (Kirkus Reviews) A Greek woman tells of how she willed herself out of her father's cloistered house, married an Irish officer in the British Army, and came to Ireland with her two-year-old son in 1852, only to be forced to leave without him soon after. An African American woman, born into slavery on a Kentucky plantation, makes her way to Cincinnati after the Civil War to work as a boarding house cook, where in 1872 she meets and marries an up-and-coming newspaper reporter. In Matsue, Japan, in 1891, a former samurai's daughter is introduced to a newly arrived English teacher, and becomes the mother of his four children and his unsung literary collaborator. The lives of writers can often best be understood through the eyes of those who nurtured them and made their work possible. In The Sweetest Fruits, these three women tell the story of their time with Lafcadio Hearn, a globetrotting writer best known for his books about Meiji-era Japan. In their own unorthodox ways, these women are also intrepid travelers and explorers. Their accounts witness Hearn's remarkable life but also seek to witness their own existence and luminous will to live unbounded by gender, race, and the mores of their time. Each is a gifted storyteller with her own precise reason for sharing her story, and together their voices offer a revealing, often contradictory portrait of Hearn. With brilliant sensitivity and an unstinting eye, Truong illuminates the women's tenacity and their struggles in a novel that circumnavigates the globe in the search for love, family, home, and belonging.

Book New Orleans Cuisine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Tucker
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781604731279
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book New Orleans Cuisine written by Susan Tucker and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories provides essays on the unparalleled recognition New Orleans has achieved as the Mecca of mealtime. Devoting each chapter to a signature cocktail, appetizer, sandwich, main course, staple, or dessert, contributors from the New Orleans Culinary Collective plate up the essence of the Big Easy through its number one export: great cooking. This book views the city's cuisine as a whole, forgetting none of its flavorful ethnic influences--French, African American, German, Italian, Spanish, and more"--Page 2 of cover.

Book La Bouche Creole

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leon E. Soniat
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981-01
  • ISBN : 9780882892429
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book La Bouche Creole written by Leon E. Soniat and published by . This book was released on 1981-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic French cooking, gusty Spanish flavors, creativity, and a lot of love are Leon Soniatis ingredients for la bouche CrEole (the Creole mouth). Interwoven with the recipes are the authoris recollections of New Orleans and of cooking with memere (grandmother) and mamete (mother).

Book The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn

Download or read book The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn written by Delia LaBarre and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lafcadio Hearn (1850--1904) was a master satirist who displayed a fiery wit both as a writer and as an artist. For seven months in 1880, he surprised and amused the readers of New Orleans with his wood-block "cartoons" and accompanying articles, which were variously funny, scathing, surreal, political, whimsical, and moral. This delightful book collects in their entirety, for the first time, all of the extant satirical columns and woodcut illustrations published in the Daily City Item -- 181 columns in all. Hearn displays immense range, illuminating in words and prints the unique culture of New Orleans, including its Creole history, debauched underworld, corrupt politicians, and voudou practitioners. The columns are expertly annotated by Delia LaBarre, who places them in their unique Crescent City context. With virtually no training in art of any kind, Hearn began creating his illustrations partly to boost the circulation of a small daily newspaper in a competitive market. He believed in the power of satirical cartoons to communicate big ideas in small spaces -- in particular, to reveal the habits, prejudices, and delusions of the current generation. Blind in his left eye (since a boyhood accident) and severely myopic in his right, Hearn nonetheless painstakingly carved out drawings on wood blocks with a penknife to be printed alongside his articles on the newspaper's letterpress. Hearn developed, from the first of these woodcuts to the last, a unique style that expressed the full range of his wit, from razor-sharp condemnation to tender affection. Hearn had a keen eye for the absurd, along with an extraordinary ability to modulate his criticism and praise in a continuum from cauterizing vitriol to palliative balm, from the heaviest sarcasm to the lightest wit. In the pieces collected here, there can be found a unifying thread: Hearn's love/hate relationship with the virtues and vices of New Orleans, a city that continually amused and amazed him. Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, Lafcadio Hearn immigrated to the United States as a teenager and became a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati, Ohio. When he married a black woman, an act that was illegal at the time, the newspaper fired him and Hearn relocated to New Orleans. In the early 1880s his contributions to national publications (like Harper's Weekly and Scribners Magazine) helped mold the popular image of New Orleans as a colorful place of decadence and hedonism. In 1888, Hearn left New Orleans for Japan, where he took the name Koizumi Yakumo and worked as a teacher, journalist, and writer. "And it may come to pass that I shall have stranger things to tell you; for this is a land of magical moons and of witches and of warlocks; and were I to tell you all that I have seen and heard in these years in this enchanted City of Dreams you would verily deem me mad rather than morbid." -- Lafcadio Hearn, 1880, describing New Orleans in a letter to a friend

Book In Ghostly Japan

Download or read book In Ghostly Japan written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Orleans Cookbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rima Collin
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 1987-03-12
  • ISBN : 0394752759
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book New Orleans Cookbook written by Rima Collin and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1987-03-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two hundred eighty-eight delicious recipes carefully worked out so that you can reproduce, in your own kitchen, the true flavors of Cajun and Creole dishes. The New Orleans cookbook whose authenticity dependability, and wealth of information have made it a classic.

Book Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan  First Series

Download or read book Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Book The Picayune s Creole Cook Book

Download or read book The Picayune s Creole Cook Book written by The Picayune and published by Andrews Mcmeel+ORM. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twentieth century cookbook featuring the food, cooking techniques and culinary history of the Creole people in New Orleans. One of the world's most unusual and exciting cooking styles, New Orleans Creole cookery melds a fantastic array of influences: Spanish spices, tropical fruits from Africa, native Choctaw Indian gumbos, and most of all, a panoply of French styles, from the haute cuisine of Paris to the hearty fare of Provence. Assembled at the turn of the twentieth century by a Crescent City newspaper, The Picayune, this volume is the bible of many a Louisiana cook and a delight to gourmets everywhere. Hundreds of enticing recipes including fine soups and gumbos, seafoods, all manner of meats, rice dishes and jambalayas, cakes and pastries, fruit drinks, French breads, and many other delectable dishes. A wealth of introductory material explains the traditional French manner of preparing foods, and a practical selection of full menus features suggestions for both everyday and festive meals.

Book Cooking in Old Cr  ole Days

Download or read book Cooking in Old Cr ole Days written by Célestine Eustis and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book La Cuisine Creole

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lafcadio Hearn
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-09-18
  • ISBN : 9781522203469
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book La Cuisine Creole written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-18 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover reprint of the original circa 1885 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Hearn, Lafcadio. La Cuisine Creole: A Collection Of Culinary Recipes From Leading Chefs And Noted Creole Housewives, Who Have Made New Orleans Famous For Its Cuisine. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Hearn, Lafcadio. La Cuisine Creole: A Collection Of Culinary Recipes From Leading Chefs And Noted Creole Housewives, Who Have Made New Orleans Famous For Its Cuisine, . New Orleans: F.F. Hansell & Bro., Ltd., circa 1885. Subject: Cookery, Creole

Book The Market Assistant

Download or read book The Market Assistant written by Thomas Farrington De Voe and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: