This was the only New Orleans meal that awed me with sheer bulk.
I visited Two Sisters thanks to the good word of its neighbors Tim Wilson (who's named for her father) and Alfred White, both of whom praised the quality of the food but added no caution about the quantity. Shown here in individual photos that don't give a good sense of the collective mass are a bowl of pork neckbones (a stand-in for stewed hen, 86'ed in midafternoon), a plate of mustard greens and rice, a piquant potato salad, buttered cornbread ($7.50 for the lot) and iced tea ($1.50) that was refilled twice when I wasn't looking. Lurking amid the mustard greens, at the left edge, were some chunks of pork that my server called "pickle tips," but she couldn't tell me more about the curious name. Also shown, at bottom, is the ''bent but not broken'' cross of the St. James A.M.E. Church next door.
For more about Two Sisters, read a transcript of an oral history collected for The Southern Gumbo Trail.
Two Sisters Restaurant
223 North Derbigny (Iberville-Bienville Sts.), New Orleans
504-524-0056
Closed Sunday
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