Napoleon House - The Book

Cheers Publishing and Vissi d’Arte Books announce the arrival of Napoleon House, a documentary of New Orleans’ greatest old saloon by the award-winning photographer best-known for capturing the city’s intoxicating history. Mikko Macchione, writer/actor/playwright and tour guide, provides histories and tales about the building, its namesake, and the family that has owned it for the last century.

The Napoleon House, with its 200-year-old colonial charm, has seduced New Orleans visitors and locals for generations and become a favorite destination for all connoisseurs of atmosphere.

In vibrant prose and beautiful photographs, Mikko Macchione and Kerri McCaffety tell its story, from its 18th-century beginnings as the home of one of la Nouvelle Orléans’ most prominent citizens, through its incarnation as the mainstay of one Italian family, and finally, to its maturity as one of the world’s great bars.

People come to the Napoleon House for food as well as for drink. These pages include recipes for its most popular dishes, alongside the how-tos for its signature drinks, including the famous Pimm’s Cup.

Kerri McCaffety

Mikko Macchione

Kerri McCaffety, author and photographer of the famous OBITUARY COCKTAIL, is acknowledged as one of the great photographers of America. Her photographs have been called “pillars of Louisiana’s cultural record.” It was the voices in the flaking walls of the Napoleon House that originally inspired her to document New Orleans’ architectural treasures.

For over twenty years, Mikko Macchione has been researching and recounting New Orleans history.  After eight years as a tour guide, he has gone on to write four books and many articles on the city. The award-winning play Jour de Gloire, which he wrote and starred in, is a lyrical chronicle of the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, with whom he shares a birthday.

NAPOLEON HOUSE is available now and can be personally autographed by one of the famous bartenders or an Impastato family member today.

Contact: Ann Rogers,
CHEERS PUBLISHING, (504) 343-4285
or Hillary Armstrong,
VISSI D’ARTE PUBLISHING, (504) 872-9623