New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has received a lot of heat lately about his “chocolate city” remarks. It turns out, however, that it was all a ploy by his publisher to draw attention to his just released cookbook titled “Cooking With Ray: An Ethnic Guide To Delicious Dishes”.

“Yes, it’s true,” Mayor Nagin admits with a sly grin. “It was all an act to hype up attention around me in preparation for the release of my new cookbook. Shucks. What can I say? I got found out.”

Some of his recipes include chocolate:
“How do you make chocolate? You take dark chocolate and add white milk to make a delicious drink.”

And watermelon:
“How do you make a watermelon? You take a black seed with white dots and it grows into a nice, juicy, sweet fruit that everyone can enjoy at the community picnic that includes people of all nationalities and family histories.”

Or every Southerner’s favorite, fried chicken:
“How do you make fried chicken? You take a chicken with black and white feathers; indeed, a chicken with many different colored feathers, because every color of feather is acceptable. Then you fry the chicken up and it makes a delicious meal.”

And many more ethnically diverse recipes.

So for all of the heat that Ray’s been getting? It comes in handy in the kitchen.

— Staff Reporter -BS