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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Go deep into the heart and soul of American southern cooking. Lauren McDuffie, writer of the award-winning food blog Harvest and Honey (and a Saveur Best Blog finalist for "Best New Voice"), captures the flavors and modern cooking techniques of Appalachia and the Blue Ridge Mountains in this evocative cookbook. Showcases 70 recipes and 80 photographs organized by seasons. Each chapter opens with storytelling that echoes the folklore and tall tales...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A culinary travel fantasy, celebrating the food of the Southeastern coast. Whitney Otawka is the award-winning chef of Greyfield, a celebrated Carnegie-built inn located on Cumberland Island, Georgia--a magical and remote barrier island that has been left undeveloped as a National Seashore. Cumberland Island and the exceptional local ingredients to be found there are Otawka's muse, inspiring her to celebrate the beloved food found along the Southeast...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When her family moved from Puerto Rico to Atlanta, Von Diaz traded plantains, roast pork, and malta for grits, fried chicken, and sweet tea. Brimming with humor and nostalgia, Coconuts and Collards is a recipe-packed memoir of growing up Latina in the Deep South. Inspired by her grandmother's 1962 copy of Cocina Criolla -- the Puerto Rican equivalent of the Joy of Cooking -- Coconuts and Collards celebrates traditional recipes while fusing them with...
Author
Publisher
The Countryman Press, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
More than 100 heirloom recipes from a dynamic chef and farmer working the lands of his great-great-great grandfather. From Hot Buttermilk Biscuits and Sweet Potato Pie to Salmon Cakes on Pepper Rice and Gullah Fish Stew, Gullah-Geechee food is an essential cuisine of American history. It is the culinary representation of the ocean, rivers, and rich fertile loam in and around the coastal South. From the Carolinas to Georgia and Florida, this is where...
Author
Publisher
Sterling Epicure, an imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This is Asian comfort food at its best! Eric Silverstein puts a modern American twist on dishes that are firmly rooted in Asian street food to deliver intensely flavored, soul-satisfying fare. His background in Asian food culture as a child in Japan, and later his immersion in Southern and Southwestern cuisine, influences his cooking today, at his restaurant, The Peached Tortilla, in Austin, Texas. Silverstein's personal narrative, detailing the difficult...
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
If you're going to have a Bitchin Kitchen, you're going to need a few things -- plenty of room, plenty of good food for sharing, high spirits (in both senses) and all the friends and family you can fit. For Miranda Lambert, a good time means sharing a great meal with the women who helped raise her back in Texas--her mom and a colorful bunch of best friends who could raise the roof, come through in a pinch, celebrate, cry, and really, really cook....
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Alexander Smalls has owned, conceptualized, and helmed some of New York's most iconic African American restaurants. Now, he follows up the James Beard award-winning Between Harlem and Heaven with Meals, Music, and Muses, a look at his world glimpsed through the lenses of music, food, culture, and history. It is a must-read journey through a life well lived and in recipe and reminiscence details the musical forms learned, the friends and family who...
Author
Publisher
Artisan Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The promise of South is irresistible. Fried chicken, shrimp and grits, biscuits, pickles, collards, and sweet potato pie from the bestknown chef of one of the world's most beloved cuisines. This collection of recipes for the home kitchen shares the very best versions of the foods we love from the author of Heritage, winner of both James Beard and IACP awards, and a New York Times bestseller with over 106,000 copies in print. Brock is also a serious...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Fresh from the kitchen of her legendary Harlem restaurant, Melba{u2019}s, the reigning queen of American comfort food serves up one hundred delectable recipes that put her own special touch on favorite dishes{u2014}and taste just like home. Where do celebrities and foodies go for the most delicious fried chicken and eggnog waffles? To Melba{u2019}s, of course! Melba Wilson is a sweet, upbeat, occasionally sassy, always genuine ambassador for the cuisine...
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A celebration of African American cooking with 109 recipes from the National Museum of African American History and Culture's Sweet Home Café Since the 2016 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, its Sweet Home Café has become a destination in its own right. Showcasing African American contributions to American cuisine, the café offers favorite dishes made with locally sourced ingredients, adding modern flavors...
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Edna Lewis (1916-2006) wrote some of America's most resonant, evocative, and significant cookbooks ever, including the now classic The Taste of Country Cooking. Lewis cooked and wrote first as a means to explore her memories of childhood on a farm in Freetown, Virginia, a community originally founded by freed black families. Later, she wrote to commemorate and document the seasonal richness of southern foodways ... She moved from the rural South...
Author
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"South Carolina's singularly rich food tradition includes distinctive ingredients, such as the Bradford Watermelon, Sea Island White Flint Corn, Palmetto Asparagus, and Carolina Gold Rice, and signature dishes such as shrimp and grits, chicken bog, okra soup, Frogmore stew, and crab rice. Taste the State tells the stories of the most important of these ingredients and dishes in 82 engaging profiles. These portraits provide origin stories, the most...
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Southern foodways intersect with various Asian-American tastes in this fusion cookbook of 100 recipes celebrating inclusivity and diversity at the dinner table with the best from various cultures, cooking styles, and comforting foods"--
Author
Publisher
Countryman Press, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Growing up in West Virginia, Chef William Dissen began his culinary journey in his grandmother's kitchen. There, family meals were cooked with local ingredients, many from the home's bountiful garden. In this ambitious debut cookbook, Dissen reinterprets the flavors of his youth, putting a modern spin on recipes grounded in the traditions of sustainable agriculture, local cuisine, and the hills and valleys of his Appalachian community. Thoughtful...
Author
Publisher
Health Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Author Mee McCormick cooked her way back to health when Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and Hashimoto's disease knocked her down. Through relentless recipe testing, she healed her gut issues with a diet of organic whole foods, anti-inflammatory oils, and nutrient-rich foods. In My Pinewood Kitchen, she shares 130+ of her gut-friendly, gluten-free recipes. From breakfasts and salads, to soups and smoothies, to dinners and desserts for weeknights...
99) Praisesong for the kitchen ghosts: stories and recipes from five generations of Black country cooks
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and forty comforting recipes from the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother's presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen; There were an abundance of ancestors stirring, measuring, and braising with her. These...
Author
Publisher
Pelican Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"'Honey, if cookin' is a chore, then you ain't been doin' it right.' --author and Lord Honey chef Jason Smith From Kentucky 'Nanners Foster Waffles to 'Lasses-Glazed Carrots to Sweet Tea and Bourbon Fried Chicken, celebrate the art of 'Country Bling' cooking with recipes that will have you digging out the cast-iron skillet and running to the store for some butter. Complete with colorful descriptions, accessible ingredients, simple directions, and...
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