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Post-Katrina: New Orleans’ Culinary Heritage

As the rest of the world relives Katrina through the media’s one year after specials, New Orleans residents have been working through the aftermath, day by day. In last week’s New York Times, there’s an interesting glimpse into the attempts to preserve New Orleans’ culinary heritage, despite the everyday struggle.
Rebuilding recipe boxes, replacing cookbooks
The New Orleans Times Picayune Dining section has turned into a recipe exchange, where people looking for damaged and lost recipes can replace a part of their family history. Residents looking for out-of-print cookbooks stop by the Kitchen Witch, which reopened after Katrina. Unsolved recipe mysteries at the bookstore appear at nola.com to see if readers can help.
Assembling oral histories
The Southern FoodWays alliance is accepting and compiling stories for New Orleans Eats: An Oral History Project.
Katrina Dinner
A New Orleans resident imagines commemorating with food to recognize the year that has passed since hurricane Katrina. Justin Lundgren came up with a ritual dinner for “the New Orleans diaspora” to remember community and recognize the great loss.
Edible Schoolyard Project comes to Nola
The Samuel Green Charter School, which suffered severe flooding, will be first site in New Orleans for the Alice Waters’ “garden-to-table” nutrition and ecology project.

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