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Sara Roahen’s classic Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table, features mentions Fury’s among other classic New Orleans stalwarts.

It requires an open mind for people who have learned to eat Italian food elsewhere. (such as Italy) to acclimate to New Orleans treatments. The Sicilian influence may be new, for one, and accepting red sauce is paramount. Also, since the integration of Italian/Sicilian cooking into New Orleans cooking at large is as complete as the integration of the people who brought it here, many casual neighborhood restaurants offer crossbred menus that confuse diners who are unaccustomed to eating gumbo as a precursor to veal Parmesan. At places like Liuzza’s Restaurant & Bar, Casamento’s, Pascal’s Manale, Fury’s, R&O’s, and Mandina’s — all high on a chowhound’s to-do list — you might find boiled crawfish and lasagna on the same table, or oyster po-boys and daube with red gravy, or fried chicken and chicken Parmesan.