Author: Junior League Of Lake Charles Louisiana
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Keywords: southwest, louisiana, recipes, treasured, pantry, pirate
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1991-11-30
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0882898655
ISBN-13: 9780882898650
Southwest Louisiana. For most people, the name itself evokes images of good food-which is because food is an integral and inseparable part of the area’s past as well as its present. Pirate’s Pantry: Treasured Recipes of Southwest Louisiana is a bountiful collection of family and regional recipes, with a spicy lagniappe of local historical lore that reflects the Creole and Cajun flavor of this unique area, steeped in mystique and legend. The notorious pirate Jean Lafitte was a frequent visitor to the local Creole tables, and his legend lives today throughout the swamps of southwest
Authors:Gestur Olafsson, Eric L. Grinberg, David Larson, Pall
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: louisiana, january, workshop, transforms, baton, rouge, mathematics, contemporary, orleans, new, ams, wavelets, special, session, radon, geometry
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-08-31
List price: $79.00
ISBN-10: 0821843273
ISBN-13: 9780821843277
Authors:Tom Downs, Kate Hoffman, Virginie Boone, Dani Valent,
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Keywords: south, lonely, louisiana, planet, amp
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2001-02
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 1864502169
ISBN-13: 9781864502169
Got a hankering for some down-home eats, toe-tapping music and soul-stirring history? From Southern comforts and juke joints to Civil Rights sites, this guide serves up a heaping helping of the old and the new with a lagniappe of hospitality. Includes Mississippi, Alabama & Tennessee lodging for all budgets, from bayou cabins to historic B&Bs advice on finding the best po-boys, barbecue, crawfish, gumbo and more 51 detailed maps, including 6 maps of New Orleans a fun and helpful glossary of Southern terms and expressions
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Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Keywords: journey, louisiana
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 2006-06-05
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1423601300
ISBN-13: 9781423601302
The Louisiana Journey is an 8th grade Louisiana history textbook. This book covers all 81 Louisiana Department of Education Social Studies Grade Level Expectations for grade 8. It offers a comprehensive course of study in Louisiana’s geography, geology, history, economics, citizenship, and government, correlating events in Louisiana to events occurring in the nation and world during the same time periods.
Author: Erna Brodber
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: louisiana
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1997-09-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1578060311
ISBN-13: 9781578060313
This is the first American publication of Brodber’s eagerly awaited third novel. In Louisiana she explores her continuing fascination with the power of the past to live in the present. Here, Ella Townsend, a young African-American anthropologist whose roots are Caribbean, researches Louisiana folk life and discovers not only the world of voodoo and carnival but also the mystical connection of the living and the dead. With her tape recorder she explores the rich heritage of Creole Louisiana, but Mammy, Ella’s primary informant, dies during the project. Then from beyond the grave she
Author: Lyle Saxon
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Keywords: louisiana, old
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1989-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0882897055
ISBN-13: 9780882897059
Author: A. J. Liebling
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Keywords: louisiana, earl
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1970-06
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0807102032
ISBN-13: 9780807102039
In the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events which began when Governor Earl K. Long was committed to a mental institution. Captivated by his subject, Liebling remained to write the fascinating yet tragic story of ?Uncle Earl?s? final year in politics. First published in 1961, The Earl of Louisiana recreates a stormy era of Louisiana politics and captures the style and personality of one of the most colorful and paradoxical figures in the state?s history. This new edition of the work includes a foreword by
