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COOKING AT THE FESTBATON ROUGE – On Saturday, October 4, cook book authors will present their latest books and dish up spicy samples at the sixth annual Louisiana Book Festival. The cooking demonstrations are part of the 2008 Louisiana Book Festival, a free and daylong celebration of books, established in 2002 to promote reading. The culinary portion of the festival will take place in a tent on Spanish Town Road near the State Capitol. At 11 a.m. Nancy Wilson will prepare a recipe from her book Louisiana’s Italians, Food, Recipes and Folkways. For more than three decades, Nancy Wilson collected anecdotes and recipes from Louisiana’s Italian immigrants, including her family and friends, as a way to preserve her children’s Italian heritage. Included in her book is a lively personal commentary alongside historical and cultural facts about Italian American immigration patterns, religious institutions and festivals such as St. Joseph’s Day. RodnReel.com’s Mike Lane will dish up a favorite recipe from his book, The Chefs of RodnReel.com: A Fishing and Hunting Camp Cookbook. RodnReel.com is the largest online fish and game organization in the United States. Its members are a community of avid sportsmen and women who have shared information about camp sites, hunting gear, fishing equipment, and all the tips and tricks of their favorite sport. In this outdoor cookbook, they share the end result: the meal. People have come from all over to enjoy the marshes, woods and swamplands and to share the recipes they have spent lifetimes perfecting. Lane will be cooking at 12:15 p.m. At 1:30 p.m. Kit Wohl will demonstrate the preparation of one of her recipes from her book, New Orleans Classic Seafood. This gorgeously photographed book celebrates New Orleans’s renowned seafood. Featured are forty-five signature dishes, accompanied by history, stories and photographs that make cooking New Orleans-style just what dining New Orleans-style has always been—an unforgettable, unmatchable experience. Finally, at 3:15 p.m. Susan Spicer will finish up in the tent kitchen with a recipe from her work, Crescent City Cooking: Unforgettable Recipes from Susan Spicer's New Orleans. One of New Orleans’s brightest culinary stars, Susan Spicer has been indulging Crescent City diners at her highly acclaimed restaurants, Bayona and Herbsaint, for years. Now, in her long-awaited cookbook, Spicer—an expert at knocking cuisine off its pedestal with a healthy dash of hot sauce, and at elevating comfort food to the level of the sublime—brings her signature dishes to the home cook’s table. Visitors to the Louisiana Book Festival will also get a chance to buy from local vendors offering family friendly Louisiana dishes and snacks and other goodies. It all takes place in the heart of Baton Rouge at the State Library of Louisiana, Louisiana State Capitol, Louisiana State Museum and nearby locations. Barnes & Noble Booksellers will have tents where visitors may purchase all featured books. The Louisiana Book Festival is co-sponsored by the Louisiana Center for the Book; the State Library of Louisiana; the Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism; Office of Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu and the Louisiana Library Foundation. The Louisiana Book Festival is made possible in part by a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Complete information on the 2008 Book Festival is available online at www.LouisianaBookFestival.org or by calling (225)-219-9503. ### |
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