Chatting Books Online Day 79. Since this coming weekend should have been The Walker Percy Weekend I thought we might try something different this week and have all of the recommended books have some relation to Walker Percy or The Walker Percy Weekend. And since I hope to still choose books from different genres I thought it appropriate that we start with "A Confederacy of Dunces Cookbook: recipes from Ignatius J. Reilly's New Orleans" by Cynthia LeJeune Nobles.
When this book was first announced back in 2015 I could not imagine how they could come up with a whole cookbook based on this one book. I mean, how many recipes can there be for Lucky Dogs? I had read a preview of the book that said it would get the recipes from many of the foods and restaurants mentioned in the book and that got me wondering. It had been a while since I read the book and other than the aforementioned lucky dogs and the occasional whisky cake I did not remember that much food in the book. So I re-read the book and it is really amazing how much food is mentioned in this book , though I should have remembered that as I certainly remembered how much Ignatius talked about the effects of all the food on his system (he did have that terrible "valve" problem).
As a food columnist for many years Cynthia LeJeune Nobles was the perfect choice to pull this book together. With sections like "Under the clock at D.H.Holmes", "Refreshments at the Night of Joy", "Santa Battaglia, or how to Cook like a Sicilian", and "Hanging out with Burma Jones" this book really covers the gamut of New Orleans cuisine .
Hardcover, 240 pages $ 35.00 a copy.
Day 79: A Cofederacy of Dunces Cookbook
