A tasty milestone for more than 16 million Southern Living readers, this new collectors edition commemorates 40 years of the best of the best. All 250 recipes have been tested in the Southern Living kitchens and over 100 photos preview gorgeous meal presentations. From classic comfort food to lighter, healthier options, 30 menus cover every occasion for foolproof cooking and entertainingSouthern style.

This cookbook focuses on easy, great-tasting foods and recipes for busy weeknights. Over 300 kitchen-tested recipes feature ingredient lists and minimal preparation time, and many of them make great use of the microwave and slow cooker.

Pressed for time? Discover the secret to creating tasty dishes with almost no effort at all! Get the most out of your slow cooking with delicious recipes for appetizers, main dishes, sides, plus more! Learn creative uses for your slow cooker in the "Yes, You Can Make That in Your Slow Cooker" chapter. "Slow-Cooker School" shares insider recipe tips from the Southern Living Test Kitchen. Full-color photos of every recipe let you quickly find the perfect dish for any occasion. Step-by-step photos reveal how-to secrets for guaranteed great results.

Southern food and food stories are bound together. This book will reflect people, regardless of where they come form, who claim Southern food as their own, whether for a lifetime or a mealtime. People feel deep affection for their local community cookbooks, especially those well-worn volumes that serve as a timestamp of a particular place and time. No other type of recipe collection is more generous, gracious, and welcoming. Before we give you a bite, we Southern cooks have to tell you about what we've made. Southern food is evocative, so our food and food stories are bound together in our communities. A memorable Southern cookbook holds good food and a good read, the equivalent of a brimming recipe box plus the scribbled notes and whispered secrets that cover the tips, advice, and stories that a generous cook shares with family members, friends, and neighbors. These recipes bring all sorts of cooks, recipes, and stories to a common table to bring readers a cookbook filled with good things to eat that have something to say.

This new essential guide to entertaining is divided by occasion, offering a fresh lineup of menus and ideas from Oxford, Mississippi's go-to caterer for every celebratory scenario life serves up. In this update to the best-selling book of our mothers' and grandmothers' era, Elizabeth's tell-it-like-it-is voice provides a twist to the classic Southern advice that is a refresher for entertainers of any age or experience. Packed with delicious recipes from the original book like Smoked Salmon Canapes, Hot Cheese Squares, and Brandy Alexanders, the book also includes popular picks from the current pages of Southern Living as well as Elizabeth's treasured recipe box. The Southern Living Party Cookbook is an entertaining handbook loaded with lifestyle tips and hilarious Heiskell stories, along with lush photography to help you get the look from table setting to plated dish.

Recipes from Southern Living Magazine.

A collection of recipes drawn from throughout thirty years of "Southern Living" magazine, including appetizers and beverages, breads, cakes and desserts, meats, poultry, salads, soups, pastas, and vegetables.

More than a recipe book, "The Southern Living Cookbook" is a complete guide to cooking, with more than 1,300 recipes, 400 photos, and extensive information about cooking.

Published since 1979, Southern Living Annual Recipes provides every single recipe from a year's worth of Southern Living magazine in one complete volume. From large, family-style meals, to easy-to-pull-together weekend brunches, to everyday family-pleasing treats--with gorgeous photographs, step-by-step instructions, and more than a dash of genteel Southern charm and style-the book includes dozens of menus and over 100 step-by-step photographs from the renowned Test Kitchen professionals at Southern Living. This hefty volume serves as a cookbook as well as a reference book. The step-by-step recipes are clear and easy to understand, and each one is accompanied by cook and prep times to help the home cook schedule time perfectly. The book includes attractive full-color photographs as well as over 100 step-by-step photos to make recipes accessible for home cooks on any level. Cookbook exclusives include: "Test Kitchens Notebook"-insider tips from Southern Living Foods Editors and Test Kitchen staffers "Cook's Notes"-reader comments about their favorite recipes Bonus recipes not found in the 2012 magazine, including "Test Kitchen Favorites" Of course Southern Living Annual Recipes is complete with the kind of cozy, Southern distinction that truly draws readers in and has made this annual a much anticipated favorite of Southern readers for over 30 years.