Tom Fitzmorris's Hungry Town

I'm amazed at how interesting I found a food-based book that is primarily about food I'm not interested in (particularly a lot of seafood). But Tom Fitzmorris makes a compelling case for the importance of food in New Orleans and particularly how food culture and restaurants in particular were critical to the recovery of the city after Hurricane Katrina. Reading this book also helped me understand why the staff at Emeril's when I tried to just stop in for dessert while I was in New Orleans a few years ago.