Magnifique Mardi Gras Menus

Magnifique Mardi Gras MenusThe English Novelist Thackeray, a testy but thoughtful gourmet, found his palate appalled when he visited the United States -- until he rode into New Orleans. There, to his delighted amazement, he found a city where "the claret is as good as it is at Bordeaux, and where a bouillabaisse can be had than which a better was not eaten at Marseille." Thus did William Makepeace afford Creole cooking its first, well-deserved break into print. Lest his words and the r...