Cooking with ArtBites: Celebrating Lena Richard and NoLA Cuisine

Maite Gomez-Rejónis the founder of ArtBites. She has dedicated her career to exploring the nexus of art and culinary history through lectures, cooking classes, and tastings presented in museums across the country and on her YouTube channel - ArtBites: Cooking Art History. She has been a guest on theToday Show, featured inFood & Winemagazine, and interviewed on KCRW'sGood Foodand NPR'sSplendid Table. Her essays and articles have been published inLife & Thyme,Eaten Magazine,Gastro Obscuraand theOxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History.

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It’s Black History Month! Mardi Gras is coming up! Let's celebrate the fascinating story of chef, cookbook author and entrepreneur Lena Richard, the woman who built a culinary empire during the Jim Crow era and helped put the Creole cooking traditions of New Orleans cuisine on the map. The menu and conversation are inspired by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/New-Orleans-Cookbook-Lena-Richard/dp/1565545885" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">New Orleans Cook Book</a> of 1939.Menu:SazeracWhite RiceShrimp and Sausage GumboBeignetsimage: Cookbook author Lena Richard (with her daughter and sous chef Marie Rhodes) was the star of a 1949 popular 30-minute cooking show, airing on New Orleans' WDSU-TV. Courtesy of Newcomb Archive, Vorhoff Library Special Collections, Tulane University

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