Red Beans And Ricely Yours: The Culinary Habits Of Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong was arguably the greatest artist of the 20th century. He was also one of its greatest eaters.
The man behind "Struttin' With Some Barbecue" so often had grub on his mind that he often worked it into his song lyrics, and occasionally signed his letters "Soul Foodly Yours." More often, the signoff was "Red Beans & Ricely Yours," after his favorite food. We'll get to that in a minute — including his personal recipe for the New Orleans staple.
First: For Louis Armstrong's 110th birthday anniversary today, I recently called Ricky Riccardi, archivist at the Louis Armstrong House Museum. Riccardi is also author of the new book What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years . He kindly made some time to chat about the ins and outs of Satchmo's gustatory preferences.
"Louis Armstrong was a very earthy human being," Riccardi said. "He got great pleasure out of the simple things: food, women, music. That really sums up the man. And you can't take food out of the equation. It's too simple to say, 'he was just a trumpet player,' or whatever else he is. The man was all about things that brought him pleasure, and food was very near the top of the list."
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Being from New Orleans, Armstrong's comfort meals were often soul food dishes. But the neighborhood where he grew up also had a significant Chinese population. According to Riccardi, it instilled in him "a lifelong love affair with Chinese food."
So much so that while on a tour of Africa in 1961, Armstrong managed to locate the only Chinese restaurant in Nairobi, Kenya. "And he was so tickled by it, he took their menu, he took their business card," Riccardi says. "And we have all that stuff today at the Louis Armstrong House Museum."
In the last few decades of his life, Armstrong settled in Corona, in the New York City borough of Queens. The LAHM is based out of his old residence, not far from where a Chinese restaurant called The Dragon Seed used to stand. Armstrong wrote letters about holding court with neighborhood children there.
Riccardi was recently reminded of this, when he held a book release party for What a Wonderful World at the LAHM.
"I'm signing books in the Armstrong garden, and sure enough, this Asian-American gentleman comes up to me and says, 'Yea, my grandfather owned a Chinese restaurant that Louis loved,'" Riccardi said. "So I said, 'The Dragon Seed?' And he goes, 'Yea!' He was so thrilled I knew about The Dragon Seed. He had copies of the book signed for all his family members.
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