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Posts Tagged ‘Katrina’

David Guas Gets Sweet on His Native New Orleans

Posted by Tim Carman on Nov. 2, 2009 at 5:54 pm

This weekend, I spent a bit of time with David Guas' debut cookbook, DamGoodSweet, in which the former pastry chef for Passion Food Hospitality recreates many of his favorite treats from New Orleans where he grew up in the Lower Ninth Ward, that area devastated by Katrina. The book, just released yesterday, almost cries with [...]

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Rebuilding Another Section of New Orleans: The Family Cookbook

Posted by Tim Carman on Dec. 11, 2008 at 1:31 pm

NPR gave a little air time yesterday to Marcelle Bienvenue, co-editor of Cooking Up A Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, who combed through the newspaper's archives to help residents rebuild their family cookbooks that were washed away during Katrina.  The paper's Brett Anderson has already been doing award-winning work, reporting on the the city's famous [...]

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