Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South: An Informal History

by Joe Gray Taylor

A lively, informal history of over three centuries of southern hospitality and cuisine, Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South traces regional gastronomic habits from the sparse diet of the first settlers on the Atlantic shore, who learned from necessity to eat what the Indians ate, to the lavish corporate cocktail parties of the New South.

Genres: History

184 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1982

Reviews

[Manray9 · Rating 3 out of 5]

A quick and interesting account of my culinary heritage. It made me hungry. I thought about my old aunt sitting on the front porch on a hot summer evening in Georgia with an tall iced-tea glass full of crumbled cornbread soaked in buttermilk eating it with a spoon. Things have changed so much it is difficult to find buttermilk in the supermarkets here in South Carolina anymore -- but everyone knows the KFC menu by heart!