Southern Food

About this book

This lively handsomely illustrated first-of-its-kind book celebrates the food of the American South in all its glorious varietyyesterday 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 OConnor on collard greens). Here in sum is the flavor and feel of what it has meant for Southerners over the generations to gather at the tablein a book thats for reading for cooking for eating (in or out) for referring to for browsing in and above all for enjoying.