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A cuisine lover�s history of New Orleans�from the Creole craze to rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina�from one of the city�s best-known food critics. Tom Fitzmorris covers the New Orleans food scene like powdered sugar covers a beignet. For more than forty years he�s written a weekly restaurant review, but he�s best known for his long-running radio talk show devoted to New Orleans restaurants and cooking. In Tom Fitzmorris�s Hungry Town, Fitzmorris movingly describes the disappearance of New Orleans�s food culture in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina�and its triumphant comeback, an essential element in the city�s recovery. He leads up to the disaster with a history of New Orleans dining prior, including the opening of restaurants by big-name chefs like Paul Prudhomme and Emeril Lagasse. Fitzmorris�s coverage of the heroic return of his beloved city�s chefs after Katrina highlights the importance of local cooking traditions to a community. The book also includes some of the author�s favorite local recipes and numerous sidebars informed by his long career writing about the Big Easy. �New Orleanians are passionate about a lot of things, especially food! Nobody understands this better than Tom Fitzmorris. In Hungry Town, Tom gives readers insight into this amazing and one-of-a-kind city, and shows how food and the restaurant industry helped the city to survive and thrive after Katrina.� �Emeril Lagasse, chef, restaurateur, and TV host