Arnaud’s Restaurant Cookbook
New Orleans Legendary Creole Cuisine
By Kit Wohl
224 pp. 10 x 10
Color and b/w photos Index
ISBN: 1-58980-309-4
EAN/ISBN-13: 978-1-58980-309-1
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Arnaud’s Restaurant
Cookbook
New Orleans Legendary Creole Cuisine
Arnaud’s Restaurant is a leader of old guard New Orleans
restaurants and a world-famous monument to the enduring allure of
classic Creole cuisine. In a city known for its culinary excellence,
Arnaud’s lasting success can be attributed in part to the constancy of
its owners, from the 1918 colorful founder, “Count” Arnaud Cazenave,
to his equally flamboyant daughter, Germaine Cazenave Wells, and now
to her heir apparent, Archie A. Casbarian. This beautiful and
extensive cookbook includes fascinating stories of Arnaud’s history
and the celebrities who have dined there, photographs, cartoons,
drawings, Arnaud memorabilia, and more than fifty scintillating dishes
from the kitchen of the legendary French Quarter restaurant.
Archie Casbarian is dedicated to the Arnaud’s Restaurant heritage and
maintains its expansive menu, one that is replete with traditional
recipes to which he adds a contemporary accent. “Creole cooking is an
exuberant, living cuisine,” proprietor Casbarian emphasizes. “It
continuously evolves as we take advantage of Louisiana’s rich bounty
of fresh seafood, shellfish, produce, and culinary talent.”
Each of the famous recipes in Arnaud’s Restaurant Cookbook has been
carefully adapted for use in the home kitchen, including Arnaud’s
Oyster Soup, Trout Meunière, Oysters Arnaud and Bienville, as well as
the restaurant’s spectacular dishes for special occasions from
weddings to Mardi Gras. Evocative photographs capture diners basking
in the joy of Arnaud meals. They illustrate the elegance of the many
richly-appointed rooms and reveal behind-the-scenes moments with the
devoted staff. Most significantly, the photographs display all the
lusciousness of the completed dishes featured in the cookbook that can
be recreated at home.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kit Wohl is a marketing specialist, artist, and sculptor who has
worked closely with the Casbarians since they acquired the restaurant
in 1979 in her capacity as CEO of Wohl & Company. She lives in New
Orleans with her husband.
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
David G. Spielman is an accomplished photographer well known for his
portraits of political, literary, artistic, and musical figures. His
work is represented in private collections and museums in the U. S.
and Great Britain, Austria, France, and Germany.
