Drag Queen Brunch

"Poppy Tooker says her new book "Drag Queen Brunch" was a community effort that practically wrote itself. It combines brunch recipes from Tooker and New Orleans restaurants and short profiles of local drag queens Vinsantos, Jessica Champagne, Laveau Contraire and a dozen others. There are 60 recipes for cocktails and traditional brunch dishes such as grits and grillades, pain perdu and calas. Restaurant recipes include Brennan's bananas Foster, Palace Cafe's crabmeat cheesecake, Saba chef and owner Alon Shaya's shakshuka and chef Isaac Toups' boudin breakfast burritos. The coffee table book features Sam Hanna's vibrant images of queens and brunch dishes. It also incorporates local history, including Tooker's favorite ghost story of Julian Eltinge, a cross-dressing actor popular in the early 1900s."--Gambit