Lee Bailey's Country Weekends

by Lee Bailey, Lee Bailey

Presents a guide to cooking and entertaining that includes one hundred recipes that emphasize simple, fresh, and seasonal foods, easy menus, and a minimum of fuss

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Nonfiction

173 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

Reviews

[Debbie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This a very old (well, 1983!) cookbook and the first by Lee Bailey. There is so much to like about this book. The photographs still hold up and Bailey's suggestions, tips and techniques for pulling off an entire weekend of seemingly effortless entertaining make me think I could actually pull this off and would love to try. And I rarely, if ever entertain like this.

You can tell that Bailey is originally from the south as his recipes for corn, cornbread, fritters and peach concoctions (not to mention the okra and bourbon) are laced throughout. But either it's that this cookbook is dated or the recipes need more enticing names - I just didn't see a "WOW I'd love to try that it sounds so delicious!" recipe in the lot. Nothing bad, just nothing great. I will try a few, in any case since I have a load of peaches right now and I dearly love corn in any form.

[Sissy]

Although I'm unlikely to use any of the recipes, the photographs are an intoxicating nostalgia. Bailey's comments are a peek into another time and place.

[Gina · Rating 1 out of 5]

Maybe if you live in Cape Cod or the Hamptons.