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The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner)
They’re wild, beloved, and all-around fabulous, but with the Sweet Potato Queens, there’re just never enough good times—or enough good eats. Well, now all fabulous women everywhere can have their own mountains of royal fun and food, because bestselling author and Boss Queen Jill Conner Browne is revealing her big-ass top secret recipes—and the events that inspired them—in...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
January 7th 2003
by Three Rivers Press
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The authorities on all things Queenly also happen to be the authorities on all things delicious as well! Just like everything else the Queen Bee does, she did not write your average, basic cookbook. The recipes are integrated into hilarious anecdotes that may make you pee... The armadillo story was my favorite. And the recipes themselves include instructions like "smoosh" this or "beat the snot" out of that. I agree with one of the reviews on the jacket that says: "You do not have to be from the...more
This book receives a 5 star rating from me not because it is a great literary work, but because it is so fun to read. I need to read a fun book every once in a while and this book (and all of the Sweet Potatoe Queen books)sure make me smile. Jill Conner Browne founded the Sweet Potato Queens 30 years ago.(there are chapters all across the U.S.) They were started in Jackson, Mississippi and march every year in Hal and Mal's Saint Patrick Day Parade. Now they have a whole week-end celebration on t...more
Browne's third tasty outing (following Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love in 1999 and God Save the Sweet Potato Queens in 2001) finds the Boss Queen taking on Betty Crocker (source of "some of the insane ideas we have struggled with and against for the last 50 years") and channeling Suze Orman for financial advice ("There's a lot to be said for rich old guys with bad hearts and no relatives, but you can't always get what you want"). Culinarily challenged readers will be happy to find this book's...more
These girls are FUNNY! They are Southern women that have great humor and know how to eat. This is so much more than a cookbook - it is a "how to live" manual for those of us who see a lot of humor in good and bad situations. I really wish Jill Conner Browne was my next door neighbor - life would never be dull!
Great big fun. If you need to cheer up or get your tiara on straight, you can't do better than the Sweet Potato Queens. Have caution, this particular book will have you rethinking your position on bacon, convincing you that not only is it ok to eat bacon, it is a necessary aspect to enjoying life.
Like the recipes, one can get too much of this, BUT it is very funny in small doses, and better at a time when one already feels pretty 'swanky' soas to realize that without irony this would be a disaster. Also, I would suggest reading the Sweet Potato Queen books in order as if they were a series. Things fit better that way.
Jun 12, 2011
Scottie Shelton
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I'm from the south so this book, full of the expressions I grew up with, cracked me up time after time. If you get the CD version it's read by the author, Jill Conner Browne, and she is just flat a HOOT! Will I read all the other Sweet Potato Queen books? Boy howdy! You bet I will!
Laugh out loud, pee your pants, good time romping fun! On my bucket list is to attend the St. Paddy's Day parade in Mississippi and maybe become a SPQ! I have the cocktail part down, not so much with the financial planning stuff and I still haven't made monkey bread.
The beginning of this book made me laugh out loud. It is a truly talented writer who can pack so many laughs into a book. The second half was enjoyable, but not as funny. I enjoyed it enough to want to read her other books. The titles alone crack me up.
Jun 20, 2009
Krista
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
any Southern woman or any other woman who likes bacon
This is a very humorous book written by a Jackson Mississippi woman who sounds like someone I would love to hang out with every now and then. It also contains recipes for those calorie packed dishes served at any gathering of women who like to eat and I'm not talking about carrots and celery! I enjoyed this book more than the SPQ's Book of Love. I especially enjoyed the chapter she wrote about her mother and what her mother eats. Worth a read for some laugh therapy.
Love Jill Conner-Brown! Love her, want to be like her, love her! She is the funniest woman alive. You think that you are reading a book written by this prim and proper southern woman and then she busts out with the 4 letter words like they are water. All of her books are a must read! I read my first Sweet Potato Queens book when I was in college or grad school. Dont remember, just know that my mom gave me the first book to read and I laughed so hard I cried. These books are not just for women. M...more
First off, this was a hoot, but not exactly the book to read if you are a 100% man loving, dedicated, stand by your man, back in the 50's kind of women. This is clever and innocent man bashing at its best with great recipes and well, OK maybe some good financial advice. While the author lost the groups interest at times, it was a fun read and we can recommend it, if not for the story line, for the great full fat, full flavored recipes.
This was a very hysterical good read. I highly recommend it to anyone who needs a good laugh. Jill's work has pulled me out of winter gloom during many a winter.
If you are from the South this is a must have cookbook. Not only will you enjoy the recipes but the humor is like no other. A highly recommended recipe, "Pig Candy".
A birthday gift one year-this was the best. You never know what to expect with Jill Conner Browne. What a great book about and for over the top Southern women.
I thought the book was actually pretty stupid, but I liked the recipes. They're fattening, totally unhealthy, and totally white-trash. Fun stuff!
Never thought it was possible to read a cookbook and LAUGH, until now. The recipe names are hysterical and yet they are quite tasty!
I love the Sweet Potato Queens. I want to be one! I really don't know if I would make any of the southern dishes in this book, but it's fun anyway.
Loving it - I love to read cookbooks period and to have a book that is fun to read but also with recipes??! Well that just takes the cake! HA!
Great if you are into cooking (especially Southern Food) and I am not. Lots about recipes and cooking. Not as much funny stuff.
Great fun - lots of bacon, cheese and Fritos going on here - but do not actually cook and eat this stuff. It'll kill ya!
I have two copies of this book. One has the pages stuck together because I cook with it so much. Greatest recipe book ever!!
The recipes are definitely not low cal or even healthy, but the book is so fun and funny! Read it just for a good laugh.
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Hilarious mix of recipe and life tips interspersed among stories from the author's own experience. A fun read.
Even the title will make you giggle. I was reading this on an airplane and nearly spit on the person next to me.
More humor than cookbook, it's fun. And if you do happen to need a recipe for catshit cookies, you're set.
I've yet to work up the courage to try the recipes, but the book made me laugh and keep on laughing.
I loved this book! The Sweet Potato Queens are hilarious; I laughed through the entire book.
Sep 05, 2010
Heather
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Never under estimate the power of a woman whom does NOT like fishing bait! LMAO!!!
Actually a cook book. Nice fattening recipes but not much of a story.
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