Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2013 i SAVEUR

Anniversary TV DINNERS 1953, Omaha, Nebraska In 1953 Omaha-based C.A. Swanson & Sons, a poultry supplier, found itself with an overstock of 260 tons of unsold Thanksgiving turkeys and avoided financial disaster through innovation. Their “TV Dinner” featured the excess turkey as a single-serving meal cooked, sliced, and packaged with stuffing, gravy, sweet potatoes, peas, and butter, all portioned out in an oven-safe aluminum tray. It would forever alter supper as we know it. FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVAL New Orleans A lesser-known but equally enthralling draw of the French Quarter Festival is its magnificent jazz brunch. Touted as the world's largest, it takes place along the Mississippi River in the Quarter's Woldenberg Park, where diners are served righteous amounts of gumbo, jambalaya, crawfish, and other local specialties from venerable New Orleans…

Dinner for two with drinks and tip Inexpensive: Under $15; Moderate: $16–$30; Expensive: Over $30 International flights land in Tbilisi, a 1,500-year-old city on the Kura River that's worth exploring. The two-hour taxi ride from Tbilisi to Sighnaghi costs about $40. Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel Rose Revolution Square 1, 0108, Tbilisi (995/32/402-200; radissonblu.com/hotel-tbilisi). Rates: $250 for a double. This 18-story luxury hotel is perched above the Mtkvari River in the center of Tbilisi, within striking distance of the restaurants and shops on Rustaveli Avenue, the city's main drag. Rooms are serene and spacious, with free Wi-Fiand, on the upper floors, spectacular views. Nana's Family Hotel 2 Sarajishvili Street, Sighnaghi (995/559-79-50-93; kkshvl@yahoo.com). Rates: $17 a person. This homey guesthouse is in Sighnaghi's picturesque town center. Proprietor Nana Kokiasvili speaks some English…

Greg and Lucy Malouf (Hardie Grant Books, 2012) Greg Malouf, formerly of MoMo, a Middle Eastern restaurant in Melbourne, Australia, has made a career of adapting the food of his Lebanese childhood to a modern global palate. For instance, he combines kibbeh, a lamb and bulgar fritter, with mozzarella cheese for a pan-Mediterranean croquette. And he plays with other cuisines as well, seasoning his “Southern” fried chicken with South Asian ingredients such as turmeric, paprika, and coriander. Together with his former wife and co-author Lucy, he makes restaurant-quality dishes accessible with down-to-earth guidance doled out with a sense of charm and disarming modesty (that kibbeh recipe, for example, includes this reassuring note: “They are a little fiddly to make but with a bit of practice you can achieve a passable,…

The cocktail may not have been invented in New Orleans, but it was perfected here—the city, in keeping with its abundant joie de vivre, has given rise to some of the nation's most spectacular and beloved libations. The same inventiveness and flair for theatricality that drive the city's big-flavored Creole cuisine (see “New Orleans,” page 36) shine through in its drinks: intense, layered, gorgeous concoctions that often resemble sorcery more than bartending. Drinks and dining go hand in hand in New Orleans, whether it's a preprandial Sazerac (a bracing blend of rye, bitters, and a kiss of absinthe, invented here in the 1850s) or the Café Brûlot Diabolique (born at Antoine's Restaurant in the 1890s and pictured, right), an after-dinner drink made, tableside, by cascading flaming brandy down a long…

Founded in 1718 by French colonists who saw the promise of commerce in this soft, curving land near the base of the Mississippi River, New Orleans has always been a city of entrepreneurs and idealists, the gutsy and the fanciful. Spain arrived. And Africa. Sicily, the Caribbean, and others. The creative interplay between cultures gave birth to the jazz, Mardi Gras, and incomparable cuisine that make this place extraordinary. Hurricane Katrina dealt a blow in 2005—the current population (around 360,000 in 2011) falls far short of prestorm numbers. Yet, from the historic French Quarter at the city's heart to the tree-shaded boulevards of Uptown to its west, the streets of shotgun houses in the Bywater to the east, the Treme to the north, and beyond, the music remains strong. The…

To find American Cooking: Creole and Acadian, part of the 1971 Time-Life “Foods of the World” series, search for vintage copies at strandbooks.com or amazon.com. Hunt for vintage eggcups on etsy.com or eBay. Perk up with one of our favorite brands of canned ground coffee; try Cafe Altura Fair Trade Dark Blend, available at Amazon ($28 for three 12-ounce cans; amazon.com); Café Bustelo Espresso and Café du Monde, available at Whole Foods Markets across the country (wholefoods.com); Chock Full o' Nuts, available at Walmart ($4 for an 11.3-ounce can; walmart.com); illy, available from illy ($30 for two 8.8-ounce cans; 877/469-4559; shop.illy.com); Jittery Joe's Sumatra Wahana Natural, available from Jittery Joe's Coffee ($15 for a 12-ounce can; store.jitteryjoes.com); Morning Star Fair Trade Organic Breakfast Blend, available from Morning Star ($9 for…