More than 350 best-ever regional recipes chosen from America's finest community cookbooks.

Presents easy-to-follow instructions for Southern-style quickbreads, cookies, cakes, pies and pastries, skillet breads, and old-fashioned yeast breads, accompanied by a short overview of each recipe's origins.

A historical, pictorial, and gastronomic tour of the plantations west of the Atchafalaya Basin in southern Louisiana introduces traditional recipes from the area that celebrate Louisiana's diverse heritage.

Damon Lee Fowler's critically acclaimed and award-nominated celebration of classic Southern cooking returns to print in a fully revised and updated edition. Hailed as a bible of Southern foodways and a major contribution to the literature of American culture, this compendium of more than two hundred traditional recipes broke new ground in food writing. Rooted in meticulous scholarship, a passion for good cooking, and a deep love for the unique culture of the South, Classical Southern Cooking presents the history and substance of this cuisine in a uniquely casual and anecdotal way that has earned it a reputation as a modern classic.

This unique tribute to women, food, and family is brimming with top-notch food writing and delicious recipes. In this mouthwatering celebration of the role cooking plays in our lives today, women describe the foods their mothers and grandmothers made for them and how they carry on the tradition of lovingly preparing for their own families "mother's very finest." Lela Nargi gathers around the table a wide array of women-from biologists and book editors to mathematicians and marketers-to discover why they feel that everything important in life-creativity, patience, time alone, time with others, nourishment mboth physical and spiritual-lies in the simple act of cooking a meal. Featuring a baker's dozen women and their favorite home-cooked recipes-including the Thinking Person's Cheesecake and Day-After Thanksgiving Gumbo-Around the Tablewill delight any woman who relishes the act of putting food on the table for the people she loves.