In New Orleans, southern Italian cooking usually points to Creole Italian, the adaptation of Sicilian traditions specific to southeast Louisiana.
Soon though, a new restaurant in the Marigny will open with a menu drawn directly from what people in Italy understand as southern Italian cooking from the mainland — the traditions of Campania, especially Naples and the Amalfi Coast.
Procida is now taking shape at 2000 Burgundy St., slated to open in early August…