Creole

  • Creole
    By Stephen Cosgrove

    On a foggy, foggy morning deep in the swamps on the Island of Serendipity, Creolé was hatched from an egg.

  • Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color
    By Sybil Kein

    The collection opens with a historically relevant perspective found in Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson's 1916 piece "People of Color of Louisiana" and continues with contemporary writings: Joan M. Martin on the history of quadroon balls; Michel ...

  • Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color
    By Sybil Kein

    Who are the Creoles? The answer is not clear-cut.

  • Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color
    By Sybil Kein

    It was sponsored by the Société Cordon Bleu, an organization of wealthy quadroon matrons who used the balls as mechanism for securing for their daughters plaçage arrangements with well-born white Creole men. Each mother's aim was to ...

  • Creole
    By Jose Eduardo Agualusa

    Creole paints a vivid and dramatic picture of a decadent social order in tatters. Extraordinary characters, real and fictional, look on as their world collapses.

  • Creole
    By Babette de Rozières

    Creole is a sumptuous celebration of this unique and much-loved style of cooking.