Product Description

In this paperback edition of a classic cookbook, one of the South's foremost cooking authorities assembles more than 150 down-home dishes inspired by the gracious traditions, regional cooking techniques, and mouthwatering ingredients of her Southern heritage.

From Hearty Chicken and Ham Gumbo to Kentucky Spiced Beef, from Old-Fashioned Greens with Bacon to New Orleans Praline Ice Cream, the recipes in this lusciously illustrated, easy-to-use cookbook are rich with nostalgia and inspired by their blend of hearty Southern flavors and textures. Appetizers, soups, salads, meats, poultry, fish, vegetables, breads, grains, desserts—they are all here in abundance, and they all add up to beautifully orchestrated meals any cook would be proud to serve. The rich photographs, specially commissioned for this volume—and helpful sidebars, covering such subjects as how to shuck an oyster and how to roast a chicken to perfection— assure success to cooks at every level. It's a true "cook's tour" of the American South, guided by the deft hand of a master cook and entertainer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59204 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 252 pages

Review
"A richly nostalgic bookIt is as good for looking as for cooking." Food and Wine (Food and Wine )

"Captures the essence of Southern sensibilities." The Louisville Courier-Journal (The Louisville Courier-Journal )

"What a wonderful bookYou could almost live on it with its spread of easy and complex, down-home and fancy." The Washington Post (The Washington Post )

"A richly nostalgic book…It is as good for looking as for cooking."– Food & Wine (Food & Wine )

"Captures the essence of Southern sensibilities."– The Louisville Courier-Journal (The Louisville Courier-Journal )

"What a wonderful book…You could almost live on it with its spread of easy and complex, down-home and fancy."– The Washington Post (The Washington Post )

Food & Wine
"A richly nostalgic book....As good for looking as for cooking."

The Louisville Courier-Journal
"Captures the essence of Southern sensibilities."

Customer Reviews

Severely abridged edition with many favorite recipes missing from the original work
I wish I had read the critical one-star review "Deception Through Omission" before ordering this severely abridged edition. So many of my favorite Camille Glenn recipes are missing in this adaptation: Roast Teal (duck)with Wild Rice Stuffing, Grits Souffle, South Carolina Country Jam Cake, and the wonderful Moravian Ginger Thins that have become a treasured Christmas tradition in my family during the last two decades. Very disappointing!

I blindly bought this 252 pp. heavily illustrated edition thinking it would be a hardback replacement for the two soft cover copies of the original 470 pp. Heritage of Southern Cooking that I've already worn out. I guess the copy of Heritage of Southern Cooking that I ordered back in the 1980s from the Quality Paperback Book Club is the only true original.

Still, this abridged edition is a handsome cookbook with many important Camille Glenn recipes that could also double as coffee-table decoration. It should please many cooks who want to explore Southern cooking. I will gift the copy I bought to somebody who is not familiar with the original canonical work.

As for me, I will continue my quest to acquire a second replacement copy of the original 1986 paperback (sigh).

The best of all Southern cookbooks
I have the original edition of this book. Every recipe I've ever made from it is divine. Try the Sour Cream Poundcake; it truly is the best I've ever tasted, and I have tried thousands. My husband's family is from Kentucky, and these recipes are true Kentucky heirloom cuisine. Try the Hot Brown -- a casserole of thick slices of toasted bread topped with sliced turkey breast and tomatoes, the whole gloriously covered with a cheddar cheese sauce and baked till the sauce is browned on top. It's a dish so good you'll bless those dried-out Thanksgiving turkey breast leftovers!

Great gift!
I gave this cook book to my daughter-in-laws and recently learned they, in turn, bought the book to give to their friends. The book is a good cook book, but also,a good "read".