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Related: About this forumInterview today on NPR
with Cynthia LeJeune Nobles' about her cookbook "A Confederacy of Dunces" based on the great O'Toole novel about Ignatius J. Reilly's New Orleans culture and food in the 60's.
Should be fun to try some of those sinful old NOLA recipes!
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Interview today on NPR (Original Post)
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Dec 2015
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japple
(9,828 posts)1. Will look up this story. I loved the book and can't imagine what might be
in that cookbook.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)3. Hunger is the mother of invention world over!
This reinvention of less-than-ideal materials tough meat, stale bread into delicious meals is a New Orleans tradition, Nobles says.
"There were some wealthy people here in the 1800s," she says, "but the majority of the population certainly was not especially since we had such a huge immigrant population. So there were lots of people not too wealthy here, and they learned to make do with what they had."
"There were some wealthy people here in the 1800s," she says, "but the majority of the population certainly was not especially since we had such a huge immigrant population. So there were lots of people not too wealthy here, and they learned to make do with what they had."
Laissez les bons temps rouler!
Dalai_1
(1,301 posts)4. Thank you
for posting this! Confedracy of Dunces is just one of my all time favorites!
I just ordered this cookbook~