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Southern Food

This lively, handsomely illustrated, first-of-its-kind book celebrates the food of the American South in all its glorious variety—yesterday, today, at home, on the road, in history. It brings us the story of Southern cooking; a guide for more than 200 restaurants in eleven Southern states; a compilation of more than 150 time-honored Southern foods; a wonderfully useful annotated bibliography of more than 250 Southern cookbooks; and a collection of more than 200 opinionated, funny, nostalgic, or mouth-watering short selections (from George Washington Carver on sweet potatoes to Flannery O'Connor on collard greens).

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Here, in sum, is the flavor and feel of what it has meant for Southerners, over the generations, to gather at the table—in a book that's for reading, for cooking, for eating (in or out), for referring to, for browsing in, and, above all, for enjoying.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 408 pages

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