Notes From the Edge of a Continent

Thursday, March 25, 2010

New Orleans 2010


[More explanations coming soon!]
Here are some restaurants I ate at, and some links to things I did and saw on my recent trip to New Orleans.

Cafe Granada

Boucherie

Croissant D'or Patisserie

Central Grocery Co.

Walsh-Drucker-Coooper Trio

Dixon Hall

Faubourg Treme': The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

Atchafalaya Houseboat




Here's a bibliography for my trip to NOLA.

Brinkley, Douglas. 2006. The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. New York: Harper Collins.

Campanella, Richard. 2002. Time and Place in New Orleans: Past geographies in the present day. Gretna, La.: Pelican.

Claxton, William. 2006. New Orleans Jazzlife, 1960. Los Angeles: Taschen.

Edwards, Jay Dearborn, and Nicolas Kariouk Pecquet du Bellay de Verton. 2004. A Creole Lexicon: Architecture, landscape, people. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Lewis, Peirce F. 2003. New Orleans: The making of an urban landscape. Santa Fe: Center for American Places.

McPhee, John A. 1989. The Control of Nature. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Pynchon, Thomas. 1960. Entropy. The Kenyon Review 22 (2):277-292.

Smithson, Robert, and Jack D. Flam. 1996. Robert Smithson, The Collected Writings. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Toledano, Roulhac, and Mary Louise Christovich. 1980. New Orleans Architecture: Faubourg Treme and the Bayou Road. Vol. VI. Gretna, La.: Pelican.


And...here are some more photos.