Plantation Cookbook

Not your usual recipe collection. There is a single Jambalaya recipe, a single Gumbo recipe, etc. These recipes have been selected as the very best. My parents gave me this cookbook and the whole family has enjoyed the benefit of my cooking at least half of these recipes. All were so wonderful that I have purchased books for all the nieces and nephews so the next generation can continue to enjoy the treasures they have known at our family table.

I am from New Orleans, and received this book as a gift in 1988. It has been one of my favorite cookbooks ever since. It is an excellent resource for authentic Creole dishes. If you want to add gumbo, etouffee, turtle soup, and the like to your repertoire, this is the book for you. The book also contains some great party food recipes--the chicken liver pate recipe is the best I've ever come acrosss. The Plantation Cookbook is a fabulous cookbook; I value it as much as Julia Child's "The Way to Cook", Rose Levy Berenbaum's "The Cake Bible", and James Peterson's "Sauces".