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HOLIDAYS
New Orleans’ Style
Story & Photos by Priscilla Lister
No destination makes my mouth water as much as “The Queen City of the South.”
nd there is no better time to visit New Orleans Nickell, my friend and traveling companion who lived here for
for its characteristic cuisine than the December 25 years until Hurricane Katrina pushed her out. We had come
holidays. During that month, more than 50 of this to New Orleans with our mutual friend, Patricia Harris, to toast
Afood city’s great restaurants celebrate the season the season in one of our favorite destinations.
with reveillon dinner menus that offer special multi-course
The name of the special dinner is based on the French word
feasts.
“reveil,” meaning “waking.” It refers to the French Creole tradi-
“Reveillon dinners date from the Creole era in the mid-19th tion of feasting after midnight mass on Christmas Eve, follow-
century — the city’s apex before the Civil War,” said Patti ing that day of fasting.
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