Chef's set to feed an army in New Orleans thanks to Hurriance Gustav
BY Helen Kennedy
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, August 31st 2008, 10:56 PM
New Orleans chef Steve Carden preps his jumbo gumbo pot for when Gustav heats up.
NEW ORLEANS - Steve Carden dragged his 10-gallon cast-iron gumbo pot through the deserted streets of the French Quarter Sunday, determined to cook his way through the storm.
"I always wanted to feed an army," he said, as a convoy of National Guardsmen trundled by. "Now I get to!"
Carden, 32, the cook at a well-known bar called Molly's at the Market, hoped to keep serving his po-boys, steaks and tacos throughout the storm.
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"I'm going to be able to say 'I cooked through Gustav. I ran an entire restaurant by myself during a frickin' hurricane!'" he said.
Carden was living in Wisconsin and cooking at a hotel when he saw the 2005 Katrina tragedy play out on TV and decided to move here.
"I fell in love with the city," he said. "I can't leave now."
The gumbo pot, which he called "my black cauldron," will be put into use if the power goes out. He has a propane stove to slow-cook the roux, a big wooden paddle to stir the gumbo and plenty of sausage and chicken.
"The only thing I'm worried about right now is my freezer," he said, as the first breezes of the onrushing storm began to lazily stir the air.
Rather than fret about the storm, he was eager to show off his pineapple-rum barbecue sauce, a tangy creation he hopes to one day bottle. "I knew I had a winner when people started doing body shots of this," he bragged.
Behind the bar was Marsha Kerasidis, who moved to New Orleans just two months ago from Los Angeles - assuming there was no way the city would get hit by lightning twice.
"In L.A., when there's a big earthquake, you pretty much can count on there not being another one for at least 10 years," said Kerasidis, 41. "I thought for sure there wouldn't be another hurricane here for another 100 years. Oops!"
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