The Southern Cook

by Margaret Agnew, Parragon Books

The Southern Cook will take you to the Southern family table where good food, drink and good times are always on the menu. With a delicious journey through each season, you can indulge in all the quintessential Southern dishes such as Hoppin John, Shrimp & Grits, Spoon Bread, Peach Ice Cream and homemade Lemonade. With over 150 soul-food classics and beautiful full-color photographs, this book will provide the amateur cook with simple feel-good favorites and the competent chef with flavorsome feasts to impress. So whether you want to indulge in a homey family Sunday dinner, share a barbeque in your yard with neighbors or celebrate at a tailgate party; let The Southern Cook guide you through each nostalgic and tasty mouthful. If you are from the South you know how important food is to Southern family life, If you aren t from the south, these recipes will make you wish you were. The nearly 150 recipes in this book and yes that does include lots of desserts are organized by the 4 seasons of the year in order to take advantage of the freshest seasonally available ingredients. Whether you have a hankering for Fried Dill Pickles, Shrimp Creole or Chess pie, this cookbook illustrated with full color photographs will have you cooking with a Southern accent in no time t all. Nearly 150 seasonally collected recipes. Full color photography and clear concise recipe instructions throughout. The food of the south revolves around pork, beef, fish & seafood, chicken, turkey but this cookbook also features sauces & gravies, breads, vegetables & fruit, and many desserts as well.

Genres: Cookbooks

224 pages, Hardcover

First published July 26, 2013

Reviews

[Kristy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm from the South, so most of these recipes make me feel like I'm sitting at my great-grandmother's house on a hot summer day - iced sweet tea, peanut butter cookies, fruit ambrosia, pecan pie, fried green tomatoes and many more.
I love the division of recipes by season, rather than type of food, because we really do find that we eat different foods at different times of the year. Years ago it was more noticeable as most of the foods prepared were based on what grew in the garden.
The typesetting and images are very nice making this book a great coffee table book, as well.

[Lollie · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's no secret that I'm in love with Southern Style cooking. Truly, the flavours that come from this way of life (yes, it is a way of life), are quite simply mouth watering.
Southern cooking thumbs it's nose at the "healthy trends" in cooking and goes full force for flavour, because really, if you're going to make something special... then make it really special!

[James Emerson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great southern cook book. Picked it up for 8 bucks and Books a Million.