He didn't eat his first oyster until he was a teenager. PHOTO BY KERRI MCCAFFETY, FROM 'RALPH BRENNAN'S NEW ORLEANS SEAFOOD COOKBOOK' Businessman and restaurateur Ralph Brennan grew up on steak ...

Today, another has been added to that list with the release of “Ralph Brennan’s New Orleans Seafood Cookbook. The 432-page manual includes recipes by chefs at four Ralph Brennan’s restaurants: Red ...

Along with his sister Ella, Mr. Brennan in 1984 co-wrote "The Commander's Palace New Orleans Cookbook." Under their direction, Commander's Palace won in 1993 a James Beard Award for outstanding ...

Celebrate Fat Tuesday! Chef Haley Bittermann, corporate executive chef for the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group, shares tasty recipes for barbecue shrimp and double chocolate bread pudding from ...

The story of the first family of New Orleans cuisine begins with ... According to a family history in the cookbook "Breakfast at Brennan's and Dinner, Too," Owen purchased the Old Absinthe House ...

Miss Brennan had weekly meetings with her staff and often sat down with her chefs, thumbing through cookbooks and looking ... making the restaurant a New Orleans landmark. In 1969, she and a ...

The Brennans — there are so many that they ... I found this to be a curious, but absolutely wonderful, recipe to find in a New Orleans cookbook, given that it includes the Japanese horseradish ...

NEW ORLEANS ... to thumb through menus and cookbooks, discussing their experiences and how to “creolize” dishes for Commander’s customers. Lagasse said Brennan also taught him his ...