Recipes and Reminiscences of New Orleans

Shop Notes: One of the classic Southern cookbooks, Recipes and Reminiscences of New Orleans is replete with generations of New Orleans dishes, a complete glossary of herbs and spices, cooking tips throughout, and sketches of historical culinary landmarks that were inspired by the Ursuline women.  The nuns who ran the Ursuline Academy since the 1700s have contributed so much to New Orleans cuisine, but their biggest claim to fame is that they are known for having invented the pecan praline.  From the Publisher: History has a way of swirling and eddying, of bringing together people and places to produce the unexpected and the amazing. This is the case with the Ursulines of New Orleans. Who would imagine that this small group of teachers could exert so strong and so lasting an influence upon the cuisine of New Orleans! That they did so is attested to by many of the chroniclers of the plantation aristocracy and the French officials, and education in the 1700s meant cooking and the "wife