Cookbook Reviews

All About Chicken
From Joy of Cooking, this cookbook is filled with information, recipes and great photos. Try a few of the recipes.

Ambrosia
Photos and samplings of recipes, history, and homes of the Deep South, from Ambrosia, by the Junior Auxiliary of Vicksburg Mississippi.

Butter Beans to Blackberries
A wonderful cookbook for all Southern food lovers. Sample recipes included.

Charleston Cuisine
A super cookbook from Southern Chef Louis Osteen, with Lowcountry recipe links.

Dinner at Miss Lady's
Memories of childhood summers spent in an elegant home in Georgia, with a sampling of recipes.

Good Housekeeping Baking
A fabulous baking cookbook perfect for novice and expert alike. More than 600 recipes along with baking tips and techniques.

The Recipe Hall of Fame
Winning recipes from hometown America. A Best of the Best of the Best cookbook, from Quail Ridge Press.

The Recipe Hall of Fame Dessert Cookbook
Another wonderful cookbook from Quail Ridge Press, this one is filled with the very best dessert recipes from hometown America. Sample recipes included!

Granny's Drawers
Marilyn Helton's review of Granny's Drawers, a delightful cookbook filled with wonderful Southern recipes and memories.

Kwanzaa
A review of the cookbook Kwanzaa - An African American Celebration of Culture and Cooking, with several Kwanzaa recipes, from Marilyn Helton.

Mama Dip's Kitchen
Southern recipes done the way our mothers did them. A great cookbook from Mildred Council, with a sampling of recipes.

Prime Time Emeril
More TV Dinners from America's Favorite Chef. Information and recipes for Mississippi Mud Cake and Emerilized Pilau.

Sugar Pie & Jelly Roll
Perfect cookbook for special desserts, cookies and candy! Recipe sampling includes an apricot bread pudding, easy butter mints and Burnt-Sugar Cake and Frosting.

Tell Me More
From the Junior League of Lafayette, Louisiana, Tell Me More is a Cajun cookbook spiced with heart-warming stories and delicious recipes.

Texas Home Cooking
Marilyn Helton, editor/publisher of the culinary newsletter Cinnamon Hearts reviews this cookbook and offers a sampling of the recipes.

What Mrs. Fisher Knows About...
About Mrs. Fisher's 1881 cookbook, the earliest known recipes recorded by an African American cook, with excerpts and recipes.