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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!
