Susan Spicer

Bayona

Susan Spicer’s cookbook, Crescent City Cooking is your opportunity to sit down with a famous chef friend and learn from her culinary journey. This book has achieved the rare distinction of capturing attention and piquing interest for a very wide spectrum:  from home cooks who use books to find something delicious for friends and family to culinary apprentices seeking something extraordinary for their restaurant guests. (Check out the cornmeal crusted crayfish pies or the smoked salmon beignets!)

The book is a piece of culinary art in script and photos. A moving art show of gorgeous food pictures, live action cooking shots with personal and poetic details guiding all your senses through the creation of beautiful food.  Crescent City Cooking is a pleasure to read and a must for any foodie or aspiring chef. Comfort food is made exotic in Susan’s butternut squash spoon bread soufflé or black bean cakes in coriander sauce.

Every chapter and recipe is prefaced with Susan’s memories, anecdotal wisdom and coaching advice to help you better understand the inside reasoning’s for doing what you’re doing. You won’t get this kind of advice from any other chef… unless you’re their apprentice. As a chef I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It was an interesting biography of a chef’s path as well as sharing thoughts about cooking from the heart. Step-by-step recipes and discussions about how to put food together was every bit as interesting and informative as the creation she and her long time team have developed together over the years at her restaurant in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

Learn what foods to have on hand, where to get them and how to put them together to create eclectic dishes that make memories your friends and guests will talk about for a long time.

This book is an essential for food enthusiasts of any level to add to their cookbook collection. Use the recipes as a guide and adjust things according to your own tastes and equipment.

It will serve you well as a reference book, culinary vault of insider tips and a great read from an author who is passionate about the food she loves to cook. It’s a must have.

I hope you enjoy this site. It will be constantly improving and I hope to connect with you in some way. If you enjoy the art of cuisine or the joy of cooking even the pleasure of eating and drinking the best our planet has I'd like to hear from you, to share ideas or to begin a blog. Life is for living. Working with beautiful top quality ingredients and sharing them with others gives me a great feeling of being a part of a beautiful thing. All the best in everything you do. Thomas