Friday, November 30, 2012

REVIEW - NEW ORLEANS MAGAZINE

Quaint Essential New Orleans - A Crescent City Lexicon

     There are plenty of vocabulary lists on the Internet focused on New Orleans’ own lingo, but Kevin J. Bozant has pulled together 180 pages worth of terms for his book Quaint Essential New Orleans. From tips about how to eat a beignet to the definition of zydeco, this book is a must-have guide to the Crescent City.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Review for "Quaint Essential New Orleans" available on amazon.com

Review by Woody K:
5.0 out of 5 stars Learn how to speak like a local (and hundreds of other interesting facts about New Orleans), September 24, 2012
This review is from: Quaint Essential New Orleans: A Crescent City Lexicon (Paperback)
Don't know your banquette from your neutral ground? Want to make sure your po-boy is properly dressed? If you are writing, reporting, or just want to know more about The Crescent City (i.e. why is it called that?), this book should be your bible.
Extensively researched and photo rich, this book should be required reading for travel writers, reporters, playwrights, newcomers and well-informed visitors. But, locals will also enjoy strolling down memory lane with the many "Ain't dere no more" entries. Native New Orleanians may be suprised at how unique they really are! This is, literally, the quintessential book about the New Orleans lexicon.

https://www.amazon.com/author/kevinjbozant

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Quaint Essential New Orleans

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INTRODUCTION
 
     If you write about New Orleans, get it right about New Orleans.  In Quaint Essential New Orleans, Kevin J. Bozant takes you on an entertaining and personal journey through the Crescent City’s culture of unique iconography, creative geography and mystifying terminology. He offers readers a generous serving from the colloquial melting pot with ingredients borrowed from the French, Spanish, Creoles, African Americans, Cajuns, West Indians, Irish, Italians, Germans, American Indians, Canadians, Vietnamese and a smattering of Yat mixed in just to make your mom-n-em happy. The resulting mélange of creative and colorful references for streets, food, Mardi Gras, jazz, local characters, geography, history and culture, blends into a delicious gumbo of grammar which is often mispronounced, misinterpreted, misunderstood, and misspelled.
 
     Do you know the difference between, Mardi Gras and Carnival, Storyland and Storyville, roux and rue?  Can you give directions to Dead Man’s Curve, Monkey Wrench Corner or Pigeon Town?  Can you name the Emperor of the World, the Voodoo Queen or the Chicken King?  Do you know what it means to mispronounce New Orleans, banquette, Tchefuncte, flambeaux, Tchoupitoulas or lagniappe?
 
If you are producing a movie or documentary in New Orleans.
If you are writing or anchoring a local newscast.
If you are editing a city newspaper, magazine or website.
If you are writing a television series set in the Crescent City.
If your next novel is about New Orleans.
You Need This Book!
 
Quaint Essential New Orleans
190 pages – 675 entries – 200 photographs
Available on Amazon.com
 
     If you go to your Mom-n-em for a crawfish boil, it’s ok to “suck da heads,” but remember, “don’t eat the dead ones!