The Fonville Winans Cookbook: Recipes and Photographs from a Louisiana Artist
Fonville Winans began his career by documenting the lives of Depression-Era Cajuns in the coastal town of Grand Isle and later became the official photographer for the state of Louisiana. An enthusiastic tinkerer and occasional inventor, Winans experimented obsessively with recipes. The Fonville Winans Cookbook incorporates recipes he found or invented in the 1950s or 1960s, recorded in two journals that his daughter-in-law, Melinda Winans, found after his death. The recipes range from the Cajun cuisine that he claimed as his favorite to Mexican and Chinese recipes that he brought home from his travels at a time when tamales and fried rice where virtually unknown in Baton Rouge. No book on Fonville Winans would be complete without his photographs, and this cookbook features many that have hitherto gone unpublished. Readers will be fascinated by the photos and the biography of this extraordinary man, and home cooks will enjoy cooking his easy and satisfying recipes.
Melinda Risch Winans is married to Fonville Winans's youngest son, Walker. She has one daughter, Lara Phillips. Winans taught English in junior high school and retired from the Louisiana Department of Transportation as a training specialist. She is an active member of PEO Chapter AQ, LSU Campus Club, Baton Rouge Gourmet Club, The Herb Society of America, and Baton Rouge Amateur Radio Club (KD5PRB). Winans resides in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with her husband.
Cynthia LeJeune Nobles is author of The Confederacy of Dunces Cookbook:Recipes from Ignatius J. Reilly's New Orleans, The Delta Queen Cookbook:The History and Recipes of the Legendary Steamboat, andco-author of The Fonville Winans Cookbook:Recipes and Photographs of a Louisiana Artist. She is also series editor for The Southern Table at LSU Press, a former food columnist for The Advocate of Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Acadiana, and a former member of the Newcomb College Culinary History Writers Group. Nobles lives in New Orleans with her husband.- Publisher : LSU Press; Annotated edition (October 2, 2017)
- Hardcover : 248 pages / color
- ISBN-13 : 978-0807167687
- Dimensions : 8.47 x 0.77 x 9.05 inches