Ruby Slippers Cookbook: Life, Culture, Family and Food After Katrina - Hardcover

Sins, Amy Cyrex

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 097851470X ISBN 13: 9780978514709

Publisher: Amy Cyrex Sins, 2006

Synopsis

After hurricane Katrina, many thought the ability to enjoy fine New Orleans style cooking might be gone forever. Fortunately, the culinary experience tourists and locals alike expect from New Orleans and South Louisiana has been captured in an elegant new cookbook. Titled Ruby Slippers Cookbook: Life, Culture, Family and Food After Katrina, the 232-page coffee table style volume is now available for sale online, enabling food lovers the opportunity to enjoy fabulous New Orleans and Louisiana style cuisine at home while also helping a good cause. New Orleans resident and emerging author, Amy Cyrex Sins, is supporting the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana through her full size, four-color, hardbound cookbook. Amy’s has included her personal journey after the floodwaters ravaged her home, as well as, stories from people she has met along the way. Included throughout the book are interesting facts about life in New Orleans. While pairing both traditional and inventive menus with heartwarming stories from rescue workers, residents and friends of the region, Amy creates a book truly capturing life in New Orleans and South Louisiana both before and after Katrina. Ruby Slippers not only offers over 140 family recipes from throughout Louisiana, but also several recipes from 14 of New Orleans’ finest restaurants. The menus are sure to keep readers busy entertaining family and friends with traditional New Orleans dishes and a few new family favorites. Amy’s book is filled with lavish photography, sure to evoke strong emotions, depicting both devastated and untouched areas of the city. Readers will find the book heartbreaking, heartwarming, uplifting all at the same time. The resilience and strength of the people living in the New Orleans area is evident in the pages of Ruby Slippers. Amy’s book is a small step in the right direction to preserve something all hold dear: life, family, and food that are uniquely New Orleans.

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About the Author

Amy Cyrex Sins graduated from Loyola University in 2000 with a degree in Communications. She is a cooking enthusiast who spends every free moment in the kitchen cooking for friends and family. Her specialty is entertaining and creating fun, festive and memorable parties for every occasion. In Amy’s kitchen, she incorporates a unique blend of classic local cuisine with cutting edge culinary trends to create food that everyone can appreciate. She enjoys the distinctive blend of culture, history, and cuisine in the daily lives of her fellow New Orleanians and was inspired to write her first cookbook after the events of Hurricane Katrina ravaged her home and city. With the fleeting days, she becomes more nostalgic for the flavors of her childhood and the stories of times past. After the flooding, she was most disappointed by the loss of her collection of handwritten recipes passed on from family and friends. In an attempt to salvage and recreate, Amy began this book project. She has met many interesting people along the way and embraced their family favorites as her new ones. Amy is hopeful about the future of New Orleans and is doing everything within her power to bring the message of rebuilding to the nation. Her book is one small step in preserving something we all hold dear: life, culture, family and food that are all uniquely New Orleans.

Review

"product of its time, the brief window between the storm and six months of its aftermath." --Judy Walker, Times Picayune, August 3, 2006

Edition details

• Publisher: Amy Cyrex Sins
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 097851470X
• ISBN 13: 9780978514709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 232