On a foggy, foggy morning deep in the swamps on the Island of Serendipity, Creolé was hatched from an egg.
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 ...
Who are the Creoles? The answer is not clear-cut.
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 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 is a sumptuous celebration of this unique and much-loved style of cooking.