The Gift of Southern Cooking

The Gift of Southern Cooking
Author: Edna Lewis
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2012-06-27
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0307962717

Edna Lewis—acclaimed author of the American classic, The Taste of Country Cooking—and Alabama-born chef Scott Peacock pool their unusual cooking talents to give us this unique cookbook filled with recipes and stories of two distinct styles of Southern cooking. Miss Lewis’s specialty is Virginia country cooking and Scott Peacock focuses on inventive and sensitive blending of new tastes with the Alabama foods he grew up on, liberally seasoned with Native American, Caribbean, and African influences. Together they have taken neglected traditional recipes unearthed in their years of research together on Southern food and worked out new versions that they have made their own. Together they share their secrets for such Southern basics as pan-fried chicken, creamy grits, and genuine Southern biscuits. Scott Peacock describes how Miss Lewis makes soup by coaxing the essence of flavor from vegetables, and he applies the same principle to his intensely flavored, scrumptious dish of Garlic Braised Shoulder Lamb Chops with Butter Beans and Tomatoes. You’ll find all these treasures and more before you even get to the superb cakes (potential “Cakewalk Winners” all), the hand-cranked ice creams, the flaky pies, and homey custards and puddings. Lewis and Peacock include twenty-two seasonal menus, from A Spring Country Breakfast for a Late Sunday Morning and A Summer Dinner of Big Flavors to An Alabama Thanksgiving and A Hearty Dinner for a Cold Winter Night, to show you how to mix and match dishes for a true Southern table. Interwoven throughout the book are warm memories of the people and the traditions that shaped these pure-tasting, genuinely American recipes. The result is a joyful coming together of two extraordinary cooks, sharing their gifts. And they invite you to join them.

The Edna Lewis Cookbook

The Edna Lewis Cookbook
Author: Edna Lewis
Publisher: Axios Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781604191066

Edna Lewis is renowned as one of the greatest American chefs and as an African-American woman who almost single handedly revived a forgotten world of refined Southern cooking. Lewis won many industry awards and was often referred to as "the Grande Dame of Southern Cooking" and the "South's answer to Julia Child."

Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking

Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking
Author: Nathalie Dupree
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 1679
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1423623169

This definitive guide to Southern cooking methods and techniques by the creators of the PBS show New Southern Cooking features more than 600 recipes. In Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking, Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart present the most comprehensive book on Southern cuisine in nearly a century. Based on years of research, Dupree and Graubart embrace the great Southern cookbooks and recipes of the past, enhancing them with the foods and conveniences of today. With more than 600 recipes and hundreds of step-by-step photographs, Dupree and Graubart make it easy to learn the techniques for creating the South’s fabulous cuisine. From basics such as cleaning vegetables and scrubbing a country ham, to show-off skills like making a soufflé and turning out the perfect biscuit—all are explained and pictured with clarity and plenty of stories that entertain.

The Taste of Country Cooking

The Taste of Country Cooking
Author: Edna Lewis
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2012-06-27
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0307761827

In this classic Southern cookbook, the “first lady of Southern cooking” (NPR) shares the seasonal recipes from a childhood spent in a small farming community settled by freed slaves. She shows us how to recreate these timeless dishes in our own kitchens—using natural ingredients, embracing the seasons, and cultivating community. With a preface by Judith Jones and foreword by Alice Waters. With menus for the four seasons, Miss Lewis (as she was almost universally known) shares the ways her family prepared and enjoyed food, savoring the delights of each special time of year. From the fresh taste of spring—the first wild mushrooms and field greens—to the feasts of summer—garden-ripe vegetables and fresh blackberry cobbler—and from the harvest of fall—baked country ham and roasted newly dug sweet potatoes—to the hearty fare of winter—stews, soups, and baked beans—Lewis sets down these marvelous dishes in loving detail. Here are recipes for Corn Pone and Crispy Biscuits, Sweet Potato Casserole and Hot Buttered Beets, Pan-Braised Spareribs, Chicken with Dumplings, Rhubarb Pie, and Brandied Peaches. Dishes are organized into more than 30 seasonal menus, such as A Late Spring Lunch After Wild-Mushroom Picking, A Midsummer Sunday Breakfast, A Christmas Eve Supper, and an Emancipation Day Dinner. In this seminal work, Edna Lewis shows us precisely how to recover, in our own country or city or suburban kitchens, the taste of the fresh, good, and distinctly American cooking that she grew up with.

Craig Claiborne's Southern Cooking

Craig Claiborne's Southern Cooking
Author: Craig Claiborne
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2007-09-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780820329925

The author introduces many of the three hundred dishes featured in a back-in-print cookbook that focuses exclusively on the South with comments and notes on their history, their evolution over the years, and his favorite versions.

Southern Cooking

Southern Cooking
Author: S. R. Dull
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2006
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780820328539

More than thirteen hundred individual recipes, as well as suggested menus for various occasions and holidays, are collected in a new edition of this classic cookbook, first published in 1928, that is the starting place for anyone in search of authentic dishes done in the traditional style.

Southern Cooking for Company

Southern Cooking for Company
Author: Nicki Pendleton Wood
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015-06-30
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1401605427

The handbook of Southern hospitality—with over one hundred recipes and tips on making guests feel at home! Food writer Nicki Pendleton Wood has gathered recipes from more than one hundred Southerners that they prepare when company is coming. These are the show-off recipes hosts pull out when guests are on the way, whether for an intimate evening with another couple, a party for a big crowd celebrating a milestone birthday, or anything in between. In addition to the recipes, contributors share their secrets for making guests feel at home with ideas for entertaining and table setting. Dishes include: Crunchy Fried Field Peas Collards with Citrus and Cranberries Lemon Miso Sweet Potatoes Purple Hull Pea Salad with Bacon Vinaigrette Cuban-Southern Pork Roast with Chimichurri “Barbecue” Sauce Chocolate Whiskey Buttermilk Cake with Praline Topping, and many more

The Soul of Southern Cooking

The Soul of Southern Cooking
Author: Kathy Starr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781588380524

This spellbinding cookbook from the heart of the Mississippi Delta collects a fine black cook's recipes from a hard-scrabble heritage. It recounts rituals of surviving and enduring while rejoicing in the family ties that bind and in the magic of creating hearty meals from make-do ingredients. The foods described by Kathy Starr rise out of the common experiences of Deep South blacks, who established a distinct kind of cooking. Its "soul," the author confides, comes from the art of simmering. Its heritage is preserved here in a fascinating collection of recipes that capture the essence of black foodways in the American South. Book jacket.

Essentials of Southern Cooking

Essentials of Southern Cooking
Author: Damon Fowler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2020-08
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781493055845

Essentials of Southern Cooking honors the spirit, the history, and the taste of a classic Southern table by focusing on the essence of great Southern food. In this engaging look at the heritage of Southern cuisine is a collection of over 200 recipes that balance the enduring appeal of rural Southern flavors with the modern sensibilities of today's cook.