A Day with the Saucier At One of New Orleans’s Oldest Restaurants

Arnaud's is one of the oldest restaurants in New Orleans, and one of the biggest, too, as it occupies eleven buildings in the French Quarter. The operation is so big that the chefs specialize to the max. Bobby McNabb is the saucier, meaning he makes sure that there are plenty of the various sauces that give each meal a distinctive flavor. Each one takes hours, or even days, to come to the proper stage. Each is made with care, but made in amounts that would stagger a home cook, or a chef at a smaller restaurant. Even people who never cook will enjoy following what he does for a day. But the camera crew is kicked out at 5:30, because that's when they really get busy! (via Nag on the Lake)