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From stylish white tablecloth dining rooms to six-napkin muffuletta dives, New Orleans Dining offers in-depth previews of the city's truly homegrown restaurants. Both candid and curmudgeonly, occasionally flippant yet always thoughtful, the book's leisurely essays are designed to steer guests toward the city's best.and away from the rest. 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Before becoming a full-time local in 2014, food critic and novelist Steven Wells Hicks spent forty years as an increasingly frequent visitor in search of the stories, people and dishes that make New Orleans one of America's legendary culinary playgrounds. Here he tells you about twenty-five of the more memorable places he's uncovered, from white tablecloth temples of cuisine to a lunchroom where boiled crawfish are served on yesterday's newspaper from a paper bag. You'll discover an old Mafia roadhouse in the boondocks, a fried chicken joint in an iffy part of town and even a greasy spoon where the main course is attitude. And that's just for starters. Plus, because Man cannot live by French bread alone, Hicks point you toward a dozen of the city's both famous and infamous watering holes. Unlike most conventional guidebooks featuring single-paragraph hype pieces singing the praises of every restaurant in the city, Hicks takes a novelist's approach to reviewing restaurants, opting instead for write leisurely pieces that not only tell you what's on a restaurant's plate, but also in a city's culinary heartbeat. Says Hicks in the book's preface, Ultimately this book is a valentine, sometimes left-handed but hopefully right-minded, to a city and the people of an industry that have simultaneously provided me with a lifetime of sensuous fulfillment while wreaking untold havoc with my waistline and the balance on my American Express card. Pulling no punches and pouring on the literary hot sauce when called for, Hicks has written a book that has become required reading for serious food fanciers planning their first or fifty-first pilgrimage to the undisputed Food Mecca on the Mighty Mississippi.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50386908021009,"sku":"CIN1505655838G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1505655838.jpg?v=1751340095"},{"product_id":"2014-new-orleans-dining-metro-explorer-edition-book-steven-wells-hicks-9781494458980","title":"2014 New Orleans Dining METRO EXPLORER EDITION","description":"Most visitors to New Orleans, whether they're in the city on business or for a little well-deserved playtime, don't wander too far from the French Quarter or the downtown hotels. 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Inside this fourth edition of his best-selling New Orleans guidebooks, visitors will find everything from white tablecloth places to six-napkin poor-boy joints, all expressly written for the visiting food lover with more taste than time. Some of the restaurants are famous, some not and some are even called out as the tourist traps they are. Candid, curmudgeonly, occasionally flippant yet always thought-provoking, the book's leisurely essays covering more than three dozen intriguing restaurants are designed to steer guests toward the city's best.and away from the rest.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51143481655569,"sku":"NIN9781494458980","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1494458985.jpg?v=1751085745"},{"product_id":"2014-new-orleans-dining-visitors-district-edition-book-steven-wells-hicks-9781494458898","title":"2014 New Orleans Dining VISITORS DISTRICT EDITION","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51151857254673,"sku":"NIN9781494458898","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1494458896.jpg?v=1751372067"},{"product_id":"2011-edition-book-steven-wells-hicks-9781453845554","title":"2011 Edition","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51252529758481,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51252531233041,"sku":"NIN9781453845554","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1453845550.jpg?v=1751338715"},{"product_id":"gleaner-book-steven-wells-hicks-9781438243436","title":"The Gleaner","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53359220261137,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53359220490513,"sku":"NIN9781438243436","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781438243436.jpg?v=1774920094"},{"product_id":"fall-of-adam-book-steven-wells-hicks-9781438282886","title":"The Fall Of Adam","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53479972274449,"sku":"NIN9781438282886","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781438282886.jpg?v=1777539962"},{"product_id":"destiny-s-anvil-book-steven-wells-hicks-9781494459062","title":"Destiny's Anvil","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53483731583249,"sku":"NIN9781494459062","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781494459062.jpg?v=1777610589"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-steven-wells-hicks.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}