Louisiana's Italians, Food, Recipes & Folkways

Blending recipes, personal memories, and cultural history, this volume offers a delectable celebration of Lousiana’s Italian heritage. After decades of collecting stories and recipes from Italian immigrants throughout Louisiana, Nancy Wilson shares her findings in this spirited and multifaceted collection of Italian food and folkways. Undertaken to preserve her children’s Italian heritage and inspired by her mother-in-law, a first-generation Italian American, Wilson presents cultural traditions