Pain Perdu (named for the famous "lost bread" aka French toast of New Orleans Creole cuisine) is written by Gisele Perez, a New Orleans expatriate- and professional chef- who has lived in Los Angeles since her childhood. She considers New Orleans to be n
but the city is chock full of them. I guess it’s not that surprising, as the city is a gift for history lovers. There’s a Civil War Museum, the Historic New Orleans Collection (with a couple of facilities in the French Quarter, the Old U.S. Mint and The Cabildo to name...