GALATOIRE'S

Biography of a Bistro
Marda Burton & Kenneth Holditch | Authors

• $24.95 hardcover
• 224 pages | 50 photos | 20 recipes
• 1-58818-071-9
• Food | Local

A feast of memories and tales about the internationally renowned New Orleans restaurant

the book

In New Orleans, where people live to eat rather than eat to live, nobody doubts the importance of a very special place in which to indulge in food—a place to toast one’s friends and to celebrate life by breaking bread together.

In New Orleans, that place has been Galatoire’s for so many generations that the century-old restaurant has absorbed the very essence of the city.

Galatoire’s: Biography of a Bistro is a feast of memories and tales about the internationally renowned restaurant and features photographs, memorabilia, and recipes. Learn the secrets of many of the restaurant’s signature dishes, including Canape Lorenzo and Trout Marguery. Go backstage with your favorite preferee or Galatoire’s family member to see behind the scenes.

Galatoire’s brings together countless stories about the customers--a who’s who of entertainers, artists, writers, politicians, and bon vivants and the legendary customs--the Line and Friday Lunch, which often stretches on into the cocktail hour and then into dinner and where the only important business in New Orleans is transacted.

The story of Galatoire’s is the story of New Orleans. Experience it within the four walls of one of the Crescent City’s most treasured and enduring heirlooms.

the authors

Marda Burton is a prolific award-winning non-fiction writer of hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. She is a Contributing Editor for Veranda Magazine.

Dr. Kenneth Holditch, Research Professor Emeritus of American Literature at University of New Orleans, is Editor of the Tennessee Williams Journal and author of numerous short stories, poems and essays.