Mosquito Supper Club by Melissa Martin

This is review #2 for today, November 8th.

I think you all know I love to cook.  After the Teachers' Book Club read Where the Crawdads Sing, we held our meeting at Hook and Reel, and now I am obsessed with making the perfect seafood boil and Cajun culture.  Amazon knows ALL THE THINGS and recommended this to me.  

Mosquito Supper Club is mostly a cookbook of Southern Cajun recipes interspersed with vignettes from the author's family history and local culture.  

Martin lost nearly everything in Hurricane Katrina.  She and her son were homeless with nothing but a few suitcases of clothing to their name.  She headed west where a friend offered hospitality and worked in their winery.  She refined techniques and set out to duplicate the recipes from home she loved.  Of course, like many women of the past, the creators of these recipes never wrote anything down.  In addition, urban sprawl and rising water are threatening the bayou and its culture.  Opening her restaurant Mosquito Supper Club in 2014 was her way to help keep the recipes alive.  

Now that I've copied a bunch of the recipes, I will be donating this.  Find it on our next display.

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