New Orleans BBQ Shrimp

Well, there is one thing for certain, in New Orleans food is an art form.  From the worker to the executive, food is such an important part of the culture that a chef would have to be very brave to serve ordinary food.  It is just not accepted here, the most common person in New Orleans has a highly educated palate.  On the food channel Adam goes to different areas looking for good food where the locals eat.  He found these BBQ shrimp at one of my favorite restaurants in Metairie/New Orleans, Deannie's.  I have not had their BBQ shrimp, but I have had Drago's, Mr. B's, Pascale Maneli's..Each is different and all delicious.  I thought you would enjoy it if I threw in a recipe of two in this city of the best food in the United States. Go ahead and argue, yours is better, but only after you come to New Orleans first.  

                                           from you tube

NEW ORLEANS FOOD IS AS DELICIOUS AS THE LESSER FORMS OF SIN

Mark Twain  

Stanley's Interior on Jackson Square photo by elizabeth gordon

Marble table with bent wood chairs in Stanley's
photo by elizabeth gordon

I am a lover of history, old worn thing,  polished old wood, antique marble and stained floors.  I love the thought of other worlds existing before me and imaging what they may have been like.  As I look a these two photos my mind goes back to an earlier New Orleans bustling with cotton day commerce and paddle boats chugging down the great Mississippi River.  I think of ladies in fine lace and petticoats, and the clop of horse hooves on cobblestone streets and the calls of street vendors......a cacophony of sound, lively, exciting, like an energetic buzz humming throughout the Quarter.  I think of days of the French Quarter, the American Quarter, the Spanish named streets, and Italian immigrants...I think of the days of slaves and human bondage for profit, the time of duels and honor, the days of 6 different flags that flew over this impossible city that lived on and on. New Orleans is a story of survival against impossible odds and still is. And it is well feed for its effort, food is the ties that binds, no bad food is tolerated here...the people of New Orleans expect the best and get it. 

In the Art of Food New Orleans Excels

Morning Call a Timeless Tradition/photo by Elizabeth Gordon

Hot Milk Containers for the best French coffee
Photo Elizabeth Gordon

Cafe and Beignets/google image

Crawfish Country

Morning Call for Cafe au Lait and Beignets 

Fried Shrimp

“New Orleans food is as delicious 


as the less


 criminal forms of sin.” 



― Mark Twain

R & O's on Lake Pontchartrain 

R & O's Roast Beef Sandwich

"In New 


Orleans, 


gluttony is a way 


of life."


-- Morton J. Horwitz

New York and


 New Orleans are 


the two most 


interesting food 

towns. In New 


Orleans, they don't 


have a bad 

deli. There's no 


mediocrity 


accepted."

Crawfish Boil with potatoes and corn/google image

-- Mario Batali

Fried Oysters New Orleans Style/

You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?
Emeril Lagasse