WINE DINE & TRAVEL MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017

elied on armoires,” Mae told us. “They kept clothes wrapped
in peppercorn and vetiver and tobacco leaves to keep them
from mildew and moths.” Gallier was so ahead of his time, he
invented ceiling vents and this home had indoor plumbing in
1860.
The Gallier House is operated by the Women’s Exchange, a
group formed in 1881 after the Civil War to provide a place for
war widows to sell their handmade goods anonymously. The
Women’s Exchange also owns and operates the Hermann-
Grima Historic House, on St. Louis. The Hermann-Grima house
preserves life here as it was during the 1800s. (The Hermann-
Grima and Gallier Historic Houses, www.hgghh.org.). I will
never forget the story of its ice house, where they stored huge
chunks of ice that had been carved from glaciers in Canada
and barged all the way down the Mississippi River to New
Orleans.
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Redfish Bienville at Tableau, with friseefingerling
potato salad and blue crab butter
sauce.
WDT MAGAZINE SPRING 2017
Top left: An appetizer sampler from Tableau:
Shrimp Remoulade “Bloody Mary,”
Fried Oysters Maison with rosemary bacon
jam, Truffled Crab Fingers, and Crabmeat
Ravigote on cucumber with lemon aioli.