Dick Brennan

Ella and Dick Brennan have been in the restaurant business for forty years. They own the highly praised Commander's Palace in New Orleans' Garden District, as well as Mr. B's Bistro in the French Quarter and Brennan's in Houston.

Lynne Roberts is a food writer for Women's Wear Daily, W, and Food & Wine. She lives in New York City.

Arthur Shilstone is an artist whose work has appeared in many magazines, including Gourmet, Smithsonian, and Field & Stream

Books by Dick Brennan

• Published by Crown Publishing Group

  The Commander's Palace New Orleans Cookbook

  There is a quiet culinary revolution going on at Commander's Palace a one-hundred-year-old restaurant in the center of New Orleans' Garden District. Here diners gather to enjoy a fabulous "new" New Orleans cuisine. dubbed "Haute Creole." New Orleans is the birthplace of many fine classic dishes -- such as shrimp remoulade, seafood gumbo, oysters Rocketeller, trout amandine, and pompano en papillotte. At Commander's Palace this classic cuisine has been changed to fit today...