{"id":309,"date":"2013-11-29T22:12:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T04:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suburbandiva.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2013-11-29T22:12:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T04:12:43","slug":"treme-stories-and-recipes-from-the-heart-of-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suburbandiva.com\/2013\/11\/29\/treme-stories-and-recipes-from-the-heart-of-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Treme: Stories and Recipes from the Heart of New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cSo here, in such context, we have an assemblage of classic and nouveau New Orleans cuisine.\u00a0Some might innocently call it a cookbook. And if used in careful, Presbyterian moderation, it\u00a0can be considered no worse than that. If you love New Orleans, if you love food, if you savor\u00a0the great banquet of life, you could\u2014once a week, perhaps\u2014pull it down from a shelf and wallow in some joy. And then you could replace it on that shelf, perhaps a higher one, and leave\u00a0it be for a fortnight or two. No problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

-David Simon, Preface of Treme.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This is one of the many delicious reasons I love cookbooks in general. They can sit for months unattended, just waiting to submerge you in adventure, comfort or Epicurean euphoria.<\/p>\n

Treme: Stories and Recipes from the Heart of New Orleans<\/em> is born of the HBO series of the same name, is more than a fan fiction collection of recipes. It\u2019s more than a coffee table book. It\u2019s more than a last minute souvenir at the studio\u2019s gift shop. It is, like the preface boasts, a place to wallow in some joy.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a beautifully-written, serious and irreverent book filled with a history, stories, and oh yes, recipes, from some of the world\u2019s greatest culinary powerhouses and the actors who play them on TV.<\/p>\n

With a tentative non-creole hand, I attempted some of the recipes. The Bacon-Wrapped Pork Loin with Smothered Greens, Butternut Squash and Cane Syrup Jus, the Black Beans and Rum a la Austin Leslie, and the Bayona\u2019s Caf\u00e9 au Lait Pots de Cr\u00e8me. So far my Louisiana passport hasn\u2019t been revoked, so I consider this success. I\u2019d place the degree of difficulty at around the intermediate mark, but then I don\u2019t think there\u2019s an expectation to replicate and master every dish after a single attempt. It\u2019s a guidebook to taste and feel your way along a culinary journey that is distinctly New Orleans.<\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re looking around for a holiday gift idea, or just want to throw a Treme<\/em>-themed party to say au revoir in the show\u2019s final season, they\u2019ve written a book on the subject.<\/p>\n

And you should cook it.<\/p>\n

\u00a9Tracey Henry<\/p>\n

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