The Southern Living Community Cookbook: Celebrating Food and Fellowship in the American South

About this book

Southern food and food stories are bound together. This book will reflect people regardless of where they come form who claim Southern food as their own whether for a lifetime or a mealtime. People feel deep affection for their local community cookbooks especially those well-worn volumes that serve as a timestamp of a particular place and time. No other type of recipe collection is more generous gracious and welcoming. Before we give you a bite we Southern cooks have to tell you about what weve made. Southern food is evocative so our food and food stories are bound together in our communities. A memorable Southern cookbook holds good food and a good read the equivalent of a brimming recipe box plus the scribbled notes and whispered secrets that cover the tips advice and stories that a generous cook shares with family members friends and neighbors. These recipes bring all sorts of cooks recipes and stories to a common table to bring readers a cookbook filled with good things to eat that have something to say.