About the Author

As food writers,RIMAandRICHARD COLLINhave writtenThe Pleasures of SeafoodandThe New Orleans Restaurant Guide. Richard Collin is the author of theNew Orleans Underground Gourmetand wrote a weekly restaurant column for the New OrleansStates-Itemfor ten years. He died in January 2010. Rima Collin, who learned to cook while on a Fullbright Scholarship in France, founded her New Orleans Cooking School in 1975. She died in 1998.