New Orleans Pralines: Plantation Sugar, Louisiana Pecans, and the Marketing of Southern Nostalgia

by Anthony J. Stanonis

The Creole praline arrived in New Orleans with the migration of formerly enslaved people fleeing Louisiana plantations after the Civil War. Black women street vendors made a livelihood by selling a range of homemade foods, including pralines, to Black dockworkers and passersby. The praline offered a path to financial independence, and even its ingredients spoke of a history of Black ingenuity: an enslaved horticulturist played a key role in domesticating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807182486
• ISBN13: 9780807182482
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"