Reddit mentions of River Road Recipes: The Textbook of Louisiana Cuisine

Does she cook? Maybe get her some cookbooks from here. https://www.amazon.com/Plantation-Cookbook-Junior-League-Orleans/dp/0963192507/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1479912019&sr=8-12&keywords=new+orleans+collectible https://www.amazon.com/River-Road-Recipes-Textbook-Louisiana/dp/0961302682/ref=pd_sim_14_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=KM7MPAB810FP5DHMCQ4K https://www.amazon.com/Cookbook-Louisiana-Lafayette-Junior-League/dp/0935032029/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=EQXGKS2CW7MJ03X3BB39

The true shizzle

Cajun here.

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There’s like five of these. Award winning and list topping for decades. I give them away as gifts for Christmas.

River Road Recipes is a classic of old-school homemade Baton Rougue cooking and encyclopedic (granted, it's from the '50s, so there are also some just awful concoctions but they're obvious).

Also John Folse, John Besh, Paul Prudhomme, Donald Link, (early) Emeril Lagasse

https://www.amazon.com/Cookbook-Louisiana-Lafayette-Junior-League/dp/0935032029/

https://www.amazon.com/River-Road-Recipes-Textbook-Louisiana/dp/0961302682

If you decide to do a New Orleans cookbook like /u/PlumLion suggested, I highly recommend River Road. It's a classic around here...a lot of people give/get this as a wedding gift :) My parents still use the one they got when they got married! There's a Vol. II that's also fantastic.