re: 10 best restaurants of 9th Ward & NOLA East

No other place to find my writings. I just post here to inform those who want to be taught, to be taught myself, and to annoy those who think they know more than they actually do.

Some of the books about New Orleans that I've read over the years include:

Anything and everything by Richard Campanella
Rising Tide (Barry) - one of the best books ever written on the Miss River and the cities along it.
Great Deluge (Brinkley) - good book on Katrina by a self-important bloviater. Takes one to know one.
Lords of Misrule (Gill) - best book on understanding the politics and power of the ruling class
Beautiful Crescent (Garvey) - very outdated and limited
Creole New Orleans (Hirsch) - best book written on the changing meaning of the word Creole and racial dynamics of the city
The World that Made New Orleans (Sublette)
Hungry Town (Fitzmorris) - he knows more about food than this whole board put together. Hate him or not, listening to him and reading his stuff has formed much of my views of food in NOLA
New Orleans City Guide (Works Progress Administration) - want to know what NOLA looked like in every regard in the 30s and 40s? Read this.
Unnatural Metropolis (Colten) - besides Campanella, the best geographic book about this city
NOLA of George Washington Cable (Powell) - want to know how Calvinistic American Protestants viewed NOLA's Catholics and Protestants and the city in general?
River and Its City (Kelman) - academic but educational
Jazz (Burns) - NOLA cannot be understood without understanding jazz

I've done a lot of independent research in libraries and collections for my own gratification as well. Once you start digging in archives, it gets very interesting. A few outsiders who criticize me here think I Google all this information, but if I had done that, it wouldn't flow with the rhythm it does. Also, it would not be as organized and would also take me an inordinate amount of time. As it is, these essays take about an hour's time, if not less. It has taken me a lifetime of paying attention to the city to be able to type out these brief histories. I don't think I've added any new info so what I type isn't worth being published in paper form, but I have tried to put my own 2 cents in as I mold all my sources together into my own narrative.

I've also read the Times Picayune almost daily for the last fifteen or twenty years.