Here’s a list of books in my New Orleans/Louisiana research collection:
Landscape and Architecture
- New Roads and Old Rivers: Louisiana’s Historic Pointe Coupee Parish, Richard Sexton, Randy Harelson, Brian Costello
- New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence: Richard Sexton, Randolph Delehanty
Food
- Gumbo Tales, Sara Roahen
- New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories, Ed. by Susan Tucker
New Orleans
- Empire of Sin, Gary Krist
- The World that Made New Orleans, Ned Sublette
- The Accidental City, Lawrence N. Powell
- The “Baby Dolls”: Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition
- The House of Dance and Feathers: A Museum by Ronald W. Lewis
- The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case, Michael A. Ross
- Very New Orleans, Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
- Nine Lives, Dan Baum
- Patriotic Fire, Winston Groom
Language
- Conversational Cajun French 1, Randall P. Whatley and Harry Jannise