![]() ![]() And food becomes another character in this observational satire - along with other oddball, "starkly colloquial" characters defined, in part, by their eating habits. Indeed, Ignatius is a glutton in a city known for its legendary cuisine. The book offers recipes for the fare of Ignatius and his cohorts. "He also likes to eat," says Cynthia LeJeune Nobles, a food history writer, columnist for the Baton Rouge Advocate and author of A Confederacy of Dunces Cookbook. Reilly, an over-educated, rotund 30-year-old who lives with his mother in a tiny house and goes about ranting against the modern world while selling hot dogs from his pushcart. ![]() Set in New Orleans in the 1960s, the novel centers around Ignatius J. Now, a new cookbook looks at the food and culture that help define the characters in the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. A Confederacy of Dunces has been called a love letter to New Orleans and hailed as a modern comedic classic. ![]()
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