Central Grocery, French Quarter, New Orleans
Central Grocery, French Quarter, New Orleans
Central Grocery, French Quarter, New Orleans
Central Grocery, French Quarter, New Orleans
Unlike my last muffuletta in New Orleans, this time we decided to go straight to the source: Central Grocery. It’s a small, old-fashioned Italian deli that created the muffuletta sandwich in 1906.
Muffuletta, New Orleans
The muffuletta consists of one Italian muffuletta bread loaf split horizontally in half and covered with marinated olive salad and layers of capiocola, salami, mortadella, emmental cheese and provolone cheese. And it’s huge. Central sells the sandwich by the half or the whole and the whole is for sure enough for two people. The olive salad is the key to the sandwich and is made of olives, celery, cauliflower and carrot. Combine all that, mix in seasonings and olive oil and let it sit for a day or more.
Muffuletta, New Orleans
Muffuletta, New Orleans
Central Grocery’s muffuletta was so very tasty, but both of us did not finish it. New Orleans is one place that we surely do not go hungry!
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Muffuletta :: Pierre Maspero’s, French Quarter, New Orleans
A sampling of traditional New Orleans dishes: shrimp creole, red beans and rice, jambalaya and shrimp remoulade :: Cajun Cabin, French Quarter, New Orleans
New Orleans Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce :: Cajun Cabin, French Quarter, New Orleans
A few more (sort of blurry) photos of food I had in New Orleans.
Note: I discovered a bunch of unpublished photos from our trip to New Orleans back in December. I’ll be publishing those photos today.
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December 8th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Everything in the French Quarter is so old. I mean, everything everywhere in the world is old, but it’s so apparent in the French Quarter. Almost every building has some sort of plaque saying what historically happened in that spot or in that building.
The ones that were really impressive were the ones like Jackson Square, which has been Jackson Square for a couple hundred years (top photo was taken there). Or the Napoleon House which has been the Napoleon House for more than 200 years. Just to think that you can walk through a patch of grass or gaze up at a statue or sit at a table and eat, and that people have been doing that same thing for hundreds of years in that exact spot. That’s amazing to me.
I didn’t eat at Napoleon House, it didn’t look open, but I had muffalatta at Pierre Maspero’s across the street. The 2nd and 3rd photos above were taken there. The restaurant takes it’s name from Pierre Maspero, who ran the slave exchange there a couple hundred years ago.
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