The Fonville Winans Cookbook: Recipes and Photographs from a Louisiana Artist
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (679 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807167681 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Winans taught English in junior high school and retired from the Louisiana Department of Transportation as a training specialist. Winans resides in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with her husband.. About the AuthorMelinda Risch Winans is married to Fonville Winans's youngest son, Walker. She is an active member of PEO Chapter AQ, LSU Campus Club, Baton Rouge Gourmet Club, The Herb Society of America, and Baton Rouge Amateur Radio Club (KD5PRB). She has one daughter, Lara Phillips
She has one daughter, Lara Phillips. Winans resides in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with her husband.. Melinda Risch Winans is married to Fonville Winans's youngest son, Walker. Winans taught English in junior high school and retired from the Louisiana Department of Transportation as a training specialist. She is an active member of PEO Chapter AQ, LSU Campus Club, Baton Rouge Gourmet Club, The Herb Society of America, and B
The Fonville Winans Cookbook incorporates recipes he found or invented in the 1950s or 1960s, recorded in two journals that his daughter-in-law, Melinda Winans, found after his death. An enthusiastic tinkerer and occasional inventor, Winans experimented obsessively with recipes. The recipes range from the Cajun cuisine that he claimed as his favorite to Mexican and Chinese recipes that he brought home from his travels at a time when tamales and fried rice where virtually unknown in Baton Rouge. No book on Fonville Winans would be complete without his photographs, and this cookbook features many that have hitherto gone unpublished. Readers will be fascinated by the photos and the biography of this extraordinary man, and home cooks will enjoy cooking his easy and satisfying recipes.. Fonville Winans began his career by documenting the lives of Depression-Era Cajuns in the coastal town of Grand Isle and later became the official photographer for the state of Louisiana