ISSUE 20, NEW ORLEANS CHEFS, Part 6: The French Masters

Some Immigrant Chefs who built New Orleans Cuisine

When I published The Culinarians in 2017, I included the most famous of the pre-1920s chefs and restaurateurs who built Louisiana Creole cuisine—The Alciatore family, Jean Galatoire, Lucien Bourdro, Miguel Brisolera, and six others. But there were many figures important in the story of the development of the city’s food that I was forced by reasons of …