New Orleans Chef to visit Jackson bookstore

Chef Susan Spicer has been called one of the brightest culinary stars in New Orleans. Her light shines on her restaurants Bayona and Herbsaint. Fans nationwide have anticipated her cookbook, Crescent City Cooking: Unforgettable Recipes from Susan Spicer's New Orleans (Knopf, $35). Co-written by Paula Disbrowe, the cookbook features recipes that have made Spicer and New Orleans famous. Now Mississippians will get a chance to meet Spicer at a book signing this weekend in Jackson.

Featuring more than 170 recipes from Let's Get the Party Started to Killer Cocktails from the Quarter, Crescent City Cooking boasts more than 80 photographs by New Orleans Times-Picayune photographer Chris Granger. The pictures alone will make you want to try the recipes but they also give you a sense of New Orleans. Each of the creative recipe's instructions are easy to follow.