Dear Students, 

Below is a list of foods/ingredients that surface in the novel. Feel free to make something traditional to New Orleans, or simply use the foods/ingredients to come up with something on your own.   Please note that you are not making great amounts of food to feed an entire class. Because there are approximately 33 students in each of the two AP Lit classes, respectively, making a “taste” or “small bite” will be sufficient. The foods listed below are not in any specific order. Nonetheless, here are a few inspiring images followed by a few words written by Ignatius in his journal entitled, The Journal of a Working Boy, or, Up from Sloth:

“Personally, I have found that a lack of food and comfort, rather than ennobling the spirit, creates only anxiety within the human psyche and channels all of one’s better impulses only towards the end of procuring something to eat. Even though I do have a Rich Inner Life, I must have some food and comfort also.”

Potato salad          

Red beans and rice

Turkey

Ham

Roast

Chili

Seafood (crab)

Figs or fig spread

Cheese dip

Steak

Lobster

Pork & Beans

Cake

Cream puffs

Ice cream

Seven up soda

Coffee with chicory

Brownies

Macaroons

Doughnuts

Pizza (not frozen)

Potato chips (potato, not corn)

Spanish rice

Garlic

Meatballs

Jumbalaya

Peas

Stew

Bread (French)

Bananas

Cashews

Cookies

Olives

Spaghetti

Fried chicken

Vegetable-beef soup

Sausage

 BBQ

Watermelon

Eggplant