Mark Folse lives and writes in and often about New Orleans. His work has appeared inThe Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, the Rumpus and the forthcoming New Laurel Review, the collections What We Know: New Orleans as Home, The Maple Leaf Rag IV, and A Howling in the Wires (which he-coedited). He never seems to find a lack of things to write about at his blog Toulouse Street—Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans.
It is a novel, not a cookbook, but my sister the full-on foodie insists that the recipes all look workable, and what could be more perfect than a story about…