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Dinner with Melissa M. Martin - Mosquito Supper Club
Left Bank Books and Sister Cities Cajun present a meal with Melissa M. Martin, Cajun chef behind the New Orleans restaurant Mosquito Supper Club, to celebrate her new cookbook, "Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou."
Dinner consists of five courses conceived and prepared by the chefs at Sister Cities Cajun, accompanied by wine/sangria pairings, all inspired by the book.
$95 includes dinner and drink pairings for ONE and ONE signed hardcover copy of "Mosquito Supper Club." The menu will be announced at a later date.
Doors open at 4pm for a social hour at the bar. Dinner will begin at 5pm.
Additional copies of "Mosquito Supper Club" will be available for purchase. A cash bar will be available for additional drinks.
For anyone who loves Cajun food or is interested in American cooking or wants to discover a distinct and engaging new female voice--or just wants to make the very best duck gumbo, shrimp jambalaya, she-crab soup, crawfish étouffée, smothered chicken, fried okra, oyster bisque, and sweet potato pie--comes "Mosquito Supper Club."
Named after her restaurant in New Orleans, chef Melissa M. Martin's debut cookbook shares her inspired and reverent interpretations of the traditional Cajun recipes she grew up eating on the Louisiana bayou, with a generous helping of stories about her community and its cooking. Every hour, Louisiana loses a football field's worth of land to the Gulf of Mexico. Too soon, Martin's hometown of Chauvin will be gone, along with the way of life it sustained. Before it disappears, Martin wants to document and share the recipes, ingredients, and customs of the Cajun people.
Illustrated throughout with dazzling color photographs of food and place, the book is divided into chapters by ingredient--from shrimp and oysters to poultry, rice, and sugarcane. Each begins with an essay explaining the ingredient and its context, including traditions like putting up blackberries each February, shrimping every August, and the many ways to make an authentic Cajun gumbo. Martin is a gifted cook who brings a female perspective to a world we've only heard about from men. The stories she tells come straight from her own life, and yet in this age of climate change and erasure of local cultures, they feel universal, moving, and urgent.
Melissa M. Martin grew up on the Louisiana coast and has lived in New Orleans for 20 years. After graduating from Loyola University in New Orleans, she worked as an adult literacy teacher until she evacuated to Northern California during Hurricane Katrina. While living there, she worked at some of the top Napa Valley vineyards and restaurants, and this is where she honed her self-taught culinary skills to a professional level. Martin returned to New Orleans three years later and opened Satsuma Café, a casual farm-to-table restaurant, and worked at Café Hope, a nonprofit restaurant, teaching at-risk youth to cook seasonal food. In 2014, she opened Mosquito Supper Club, where she serves family-style meals to small groups of guests who reserve a place at her table months in advance.
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LocationSister Cities Cajun (View)
3550 S. Broadway
St. Louis, MO 63118
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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