Subject: Doris Finister

• Dispatch from New Orleans: Two Sisters Kitchen's Shrimp & Okra

  Despite a trip to the hospital on Wednesday (to have a stubborn splinter cut out), chef Dorothy "Doris" Finister of Two Sisters Kitchen met us at the New Orleans School of Cooking's kitchen on Thursday afternoon to tutor us in the preparation of her signature shrimp-and-okra dish. It's one of those recipes that doesn't come with precise measurements. Which adds to its authenticity--and raises it from science to art. From sautéing diced onions to pouring on "red gravy" (as Doris calls the to

  July 17, 2009