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Guide Picks - Top 10 Southern Cookbooks
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These cookbooks are among the best of Southern cooking, written by some of the top food writers and historians.
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1) Butterbeans to Blackberries
Along with an abundance of mouth-watering recipes, this cookbook offers
dozens of mail order resources for unique or hard-to-find foods and
seeds as well as contact information for many regional farm markets and
festivals.
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2) Mama Dip's Kitchen
None of the recipes in her cookbook are complicated. In fact, she had a difficult
time writing it at first, since she was a "dump" cook, adding ingredients and cooking
by look and feel. Lucky for all of us, she began to write measurements and
instructions down for the cookbook.
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3) Charleston Cuisine
Louis Osteen, a noted Chef with 20 years of experience cooking in
the South, takes regional favorites to new heights in Charleston
Cuisine.
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4) Mrs. Wilkes' Boardinghouse Cookbook
A wonderful collection of the recipes that made Mrs. Wilkes' boardinghouse one of Savannah's favorite restaurants. The restaurant's and Wilkes family history is written by John T. Edge.
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5) The Southern Cook's Handbook
This is a new cookbook with more than 200 traditional recipes and plenty of stip-by-step instructions. A must-have for your collection.
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6) Fried Chicken
Yes, it's all fried chicken! Damon Lee Fowler's collection of fried chicken recipes from all over the world, including a chapter devoted to Southern Fried Chicken.
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7) Shuck Beans, Stack Cakes and Honest Fried Chicken
A wonderful collection of recipes from Ronni Lundy. Includes authentic Kentucky recipes with personal notes and many recipes from country music stars.
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8) Fearless Frying
This book, from John Martin Taylor (Hoppin' John), contains recipes for crispy fried chicken, corn cakes, fritters, and even fried rice. Everything you need to know about frying food.
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9) Mountain Country Cooking
Written by Mark Sohn, this cookbook offers some of the best recipes from the mountains, from Mountain Country Cornbread to Pan-Fried Chicken.
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10) Welcome Table
From Jessica Harris, feast of African-American recipes with a good deal of historical information.
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