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243 contributors Karen Trahan Leathem is Museum Historian at the Louisiana State Museum and has curated, written, edited, and assisted with many exhibits and publications about food. She is co-editor of The American South in the Twentieth Century (University of Georgia Press, 2005). Patricia Kennedy Livingston is a writer who edited and tested recipes for five cookbooks for Chef Paul Prudhomme. Since 1987, she has written a weekly column and occasional articles for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Michael Mizell-Nelson is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of New Orleans. His research interests focus upon the social and cultural history of New Orleans, and he is completing a study of race relations within the New Orleans public transit system. Cynthia LeJeune Nobles is a recent graduate from the University of New Orleans. She holds a certification in boulangerie from Le Cordon Bleu, Paris, and she is the author of Dining on the Delta Queen: A Culinary History 1926–2008 (American Foodways Press, forthcoming). Sharon Stallworth Nossiter is a former newspaper reporter and has attended culinary classes at home and abroad. She is co-author of“Food,” one of six major sections in American Regional Cultures: The South (Greenwood Press, 2004). Sara Roahen is a freelance writer and oral historian. She is author of the book Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table (Norton, 2008). She also served as food critic for the New Orleans Gambit Weekly from 2001 until 2004. Susan Tucker is the author of Telling Memories among Southern Women (Lousiana State University, 1989) and co-editor of The Scrapbook in American Life (Temple, 2006). She is an archivist and librarian at the Newcomb Center for Research on Women. This page intentionally left blank ...

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