Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, several Louisiana cookbooks collected the diverse cooking styles of Creole New Orleanians. Crescent City cookbooks continued to represent Louisiana throughout the next century.
Representations of Louisiana’s Creole population are as varied and complex as the definition of the term itself.
Author and journalist Lafcadio Hearn spent a number of years in New Orleans writing about Creole culture.
Local color fiction was a literature genre popular with American readers between 1870 and 1900.
From the time of colonial exploration to the present, Louisiana’s landscape has inspired a rich variety of nature writing.
New Orleans has been the subject of literature from the colonial period to the present day.
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