Additionally, I found the stories to feel rep When I read a cookbook, I find myself using two criteria. Additionally, I found the stories to feel repetitive after a while. Others might find this intriguing and useful, but it was unfortunately not to my taste, in the kitchen or in the reading. May 09, Jessica rated it it was amazing.
HOW do you write a cookbook that both makes me famished and also want to start packing to move?! We're gonna have to ask Martha Hall Foose because she has done just that. I adore the stories and remembrances she shares with us about a time and place both familiar and foreign to someone who grew up on the great plains. And that's before we even get to the food! I want to eat it all right here.
I don't know that I've had another book, let alone cookbook, come together so well to make me HOW do you write a cookbook that both makes me famished and also want to start packing to move?! I don't know that I've had another book, let alone cookbook, come together so well to make me feel so comfy and soothed. So thank you Miss Martha, for that! May 15, Kimberly rated it really liked it. Nice book with a lovely little story to go along with each recipe.
Not as many pictures of the food as you might like. Most of the recipes are more labor-intensive than anything I would make. A lot of them do remind me of my childhood and my mother's down-home Tennessee cooking. I would gladly eat nearly any of these if someone else made them for me. Jun 01, Janine rated it liked it. We often forget that US Southern food is a cuisine in itself.
The recipe notes give an entertaining insiders look into life in the deep South - think setting a bourbon based drink on your mailbox door while you and your neighbors sit on a tree stump and go through your mail. Jan 22, Mommalibrarian rated it it was amazing Shelves: I learned a few things about cooking that I did not know from this book. Don't use extra virgin olive oil when making homemade mayonnaise. Many of the recipes are fried and most are fairly high calorie and I learned a few things about cooking that I did not know from this book.
Many of the recipes are fried and most are fairly high calorie and delicious sounding. The best part of the book is the little sqibbits about the authors friends and family. Next to a recipe for REAL turtle soup: Hank allowed, 'It is the harest thing in the world to do. Best advice I can give is to put it in the trunk of your car and drive over to Louisiana and get one of them to do it. Some include sophisticated ingredients like gouda cheese in the grits, carraway seeds in the carrots, and curry powder in the sweet potatoe soup.
Unlike the Southern traditions I was raised with she includes alcoholic beverages and lots of fish and seafook. Both of these things were either unknown or not mentioned in the more inland, more severe South where I grew up. I recommend this book to anyone interested in food.
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You will gain weight just reading it. What a delightful book and discussion! The What's Cooking group enjoyed reading about the characters that populate Foose's hometown and family as well as the recipes that she shares with us. We sampled the following Foose is a chatty author.
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Each recipe comes with a description of a situation or a person that has a connection to it. Overall her instructions are clear and well written. One member who cooked the Baked Beans found that the temperature was way too low to cook the beans and increased it from degrees to Everyone who prepared the Proper Fried Chicken found that it was labor intensive and probably not a recipe that they would make again.
They enjoyed it, but anticipated purchasing future fried chicken meals locally. Foose's James Beard Award is well deserved as her cookbook is a nice introduction to Southern cooking and culture. Sep 14, Margaret rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Fantastic cookbook with recipes from a Mississippi chef, writer, and bon vivant. Reading through this cookbook today actually made me weep; food can trigger such strong memories, and recipes have the same power.
I wanted to be 8 years old again in the Mississippi Delta, at a family reunion, sneaking deviled eggs off the big platter while the aunts set everything out.
It's a book of memories if you grew up in the South and are a certain age. The recipes are a mixture of old-fashioned standards e Fantastic cookbook with recipes from a Mississippi chef, writer, and bon vivant. The recipes are a mixture of old-fashioned standards egg and olive salad, root beer glazed ham, fried okra and more modern or reinvented ideas curried sweet potato soup, chile lime skirt steak, sweet tea pie. Her writing is interspersed throughout the recipes--denoting each one and then there are some essays, too. This cookbook is a wonderful one for me, and I know that not only will I turn to it in times of need for a covered dish supper, dinner party, or standby lunch but also will flip through it in times of acutest homesickness.
Jan 20, Jay rated it really liked it Shelves: The sweetpotato curry soup was probably the best soup I've ever made. I've used a half a bottle of brandy on the milk punch recipe and felt really southern drinking it. I've made the delicious and adorable polka-dot shortbread for a birthday gift, and the rich and creamy buttermilk peach ice cream for a treat!
All winners, though the ice cream needed more peaches and less buttermilk the cobbler will likely be next, then I might need to focus on less fattening fare for awhile. I would love to The sweetpotato curry soup was probably the best soup I've ever made. I would love to have this perfet summer cookbook in my collection. Apr 30, Jennifer rated it really liked it.
It was the title that reached out and grabbed me first as I wound my way through the library shelves on a sunny Saturday afternoon. It wasn't quite warm enough to brew up a batch of sweet tea but that wouldln't stop me from reading about it! While these southern recipes sound delicious, especially the Blackberry Limeade otherwise known as Amethyst Elixir , what really captured my attention were the descriptions and little stories that accompanied each recipe. Choose it for the recipes and savor It was the title that reached out and grabbed me first as I wound my way through the library shelves on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
Choose it for the recipes and savor it for the stories. Mar 15, Anina rated it really liked it Shelves: Inspired me to start making mayonnaise and consequently copious amounts of both tuna-pasta and egg salad within a 24 hour period. I am going to make those buttermilk bacon pralines next. This books is pretty awesome and does have some recipes I consider healthful veggies as well.
But I am still removing one star because of the detriment it poses to my health. This is recommended for: Dec 18, Ginny rated it liked it Shelves: I had to read this book solely based on the title and cover photo!
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I enjoy reading cookbooks as much for the stories behind the recipes as I do for the recipes and this was one of those books. Each recipe has a tongue in cheek sub-title i. I'm not sure how many of the recipes I will actually cook, but it was definitely a good read for fans of this sort of cookbook.
May 24, Jennie rated it really liked it Shelves: Yes, I'm a wannabe Southerner. This is not my first confession. There are others, and it just warmed my heart to see ambrosia in there - almost like my Gran and Mom make it. Sep 28, Kim rated it it was amazing Shelves: I put this in my library queue based on a recommendation from somewhere online. I wasn't expecting that much not a huge fan of Southern cuisine , but it's an amazing cookbook. Definitely going to have to buy a copy for myself. The recipes look fun and not too unhealthy well, a little bit unhealthy and the anecdotes and stories make the cookbook even more enjoyable.
May 06, Scottsdale Public Library added it Shelves: Foose writes some of the very best cook books that I have ever read. Her love for the south, specifically the Mississippi delta area, and it's cuisine comes across on every page and is contagious.
The recipes are accessible, plentiful and varied, and the photography is exquisite. I highly recommend this book for any chef. Sep 21, Jessica rated it it was amazing Shelves: From Bourbon country to the Delta, this book is a beautiful tribute to the places, people, and recipes of the South. The stories found amid the recipes are delightful.
The recipes may be nothing new for Southern bred cooks but the way the author relates her stories make them feel fresh again. This book is like a glass of sweet tea on a front porch with a cool breeze--priceless. Jan 24, Peggy rated it it was amazing. Beautiful pictures, yummy recipes, entertaining tales to go with the food. This is a great cookbook. I love cookbooks that give the story behind the recipes and this one does. I want to try some of the recipes, expecially chicken pot pie and coconut cake. Just waiting till the snow melts and the electricty comes back on!
Nov 24, Mary Kay rated it it was amazing Shelves: Foose really captures a sense of place in her wonderful cookbook. Each recipe has a story, and the book has beautiful pictures of food. This book is good enough to read cover to cover. I really love the sweet potato biscuit recipe- it is delicious and simple. However, the red velvet cake did not turn out red when I made it. Dec 31, Jessica rated it really liked it Shelves: Foose has a chatty style of presenting her recipes I felt like I had found a new friend.
The recipes are clearly written and easy to follow. The food tasted great too! Notes on the sidebar are handy for substitutions and adjustments. Jul 26, Carmen rated it really liked it. I love the South with all its history and she tells stories throughout her recipes and to me that is what I enjoy about it! I am a church woman and she tells a story of how you become a "mother of the church" I am working towards that goal! Jan 09, Beka rated it really liked it Shelves: I'm trying to decide whether or not I should buy this book.
The recipes are familiar, but often updated just a bit. They all sound delicious, and I really enjoyed the stories that she told to accompany each recipe. Feb 28, Thursday Bram rated it it was amazing. This cookbook is full of amazing recipes: We're talking good, old-fashioned Southern cooking with the occasional update to take available ingredients and skills available.
Some familiar but never predictable recipes-pimiento cheese, gumbo, cornbread-besides being too good to leave out, are joined in this sterling cookbook with many others less commonly seen but no less superlative, all unmistakably Southern, like Delta hot tamales, for example, or West Indies salad from Mobile, circa s , salmon croquettes, biscuits with tomato gravy, and black bottom pie.
Her book is one to be cherished, shared, and consumed. At Home, on the Road, in History" "If you've got a rocker on the front porch, get into it; if not, settle into your favorite chair. In either case, fix yourself a long drink and give yourself the pleasure of spending a little time with Martha Foose on her Mississippi farm before you head into the kitchen.
Martha is that delightful combination of charming storyteller and darn good cook and in this book you get generous servings of each-both are delicious. Some familiar but never predictable recipespimiento cheese, gumbo, cornbreadbesides being too good to leave out, are joined in this sterling cookbook with many others less commonly seen but no less superlative, all unmistakably Southern, like Delta hot tamales, for example, or West Indies salad from Mobile, circa s , salmon croquettes, biscuits with tomato gravy, and black bottom pie.
At Home, on the Road, in History "If you've got a rocker on the front porch, get into it; if not, settle into your favorite chair. Martha is that delightful combination of charming storyteller and darn good cook and in this book you get generous servings of eachboth are delicious. It has great information and wonderful recipes! And her stories of growing up in Mississippi have the unmistakably Southern cadence of tales swapped across the dinner table.
The book has given us a new appreciation for the genius of Delta cuisine, and even better, it has us yearning to cook, gather friends, and tell stories.
Southern Cookbook "This book takes me back to the things I loved about my childhood in the rural south. I can't wait to get copies for my mother and aunts. From Martha Foose's Mississippi Delta, that queer and otherworldly land of catfish and cotton. Edge, author of Fried Chicken: An American Story From the Hardcover edition. At My Grandmother's Table: Back to my roots Good vittles and great recipes.
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