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Article: French bread--an endangered species
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- New Orleans Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright New Orleans Publishing Group Inc. May 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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There I stood in the bakery section of the supermarket, gently fondling a wrapped loaf of bread. She's right, I thought. It's soft. This isn't real French bread.
"She" is Maureen Detweiler, a native New Orleanian with such a passion for the preservation of endangered New Orleans foods that she is the only person I am aware of who knows how to fix a Roffigniac, a drink somewhat akin to an old-fashioned. It was once served at Maylie's, a defunct Creole restaurant that named its house-specialty cocktail after a turn-of-the-century mayor.
One of Detweiler's causes as of late has been to save New Orleans-style French bread, which she sees as being endangered by imitations. Some supermarkets that ...