Remembering New Orleans Photographer Roy Guste.
He enjoyed this facebook page and sharing memories here. https://www.facebook.com/roygustephoto
He will be missed by many that cherish our New Orleans Culture.
Rest in Peace!
Roy Francis Guste, Jr. born October 7, 1951 - August 9, 2021 was a New Orleans author, photographer, and culinary historian.
He has written 10 Louisiana French-Creole cuisine cookbooks. Guste, a noted Creole historian and resident of the historic French Quarter of New Orleans for more than four decades, grew up in the Garden District, New Orleans and studied at the Le Cordon Bleu. Link: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=roy+guste&ref=nb_sb_noss
Guste wrote the 1978 Antoine's Restaurant Cookbook, and self-published a new edition in 2015 which covers the history of Antoine's and Creole cuisine in New Orleans.
He is a contributor to the nationally released multi-award-winning book Orléans Embrace with the Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carré,a compendium with TJ Fisher and Louis Sahuc
The commemorative edition garnered double gold at the prestigious PMA Benjamin Franklin Awards 2007 for "The Best New Voice Nonfiction" and "The Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book Nonfiction." The book received 8 national book awards.
Guste's father, Roy F. Guste Sr. (1923-2010) was co-manager of Antione's.
Guste is the nephew of Louisiana's longest-serving Attorney General, William J. Guste.
