New Orleanians have elevated the pleasures of cooking and consuming to a highly skilled, sophisticated art form. In this edition, the authors offer 119 recipes they consider most representative of New Orleans home cuisine. The trio have drawn extensively from the three primary cultures-English, French and Spanish-that have contributed most to refining the city's culinary specialities, in many cases unlocking nineteenth century cooking secrets discovered in old hand-written notes. The carefully compiled recipes include metric measures, and may be prepared perfectly, even by the beginning cook. Balanced categories make the volume simple but complete, so that everyone, from gourmet chef to neophyte cook, may enjoy the pleasures a wide range of food many regard the best in the world.