My Mother's Southern Entertaining

by James Villas, Martha P. Villas

Offers more than 150 true Southern recipes for parties and other get-togethers, organized by holiday and event, and includes accompanying anecdotes, Southern lore, and historical tidbits.

Genres: Cookbooks

320 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2000

About the author

James Villas was the food and wine editor of Town & Country magazine for twenty-seven years. His work has also appeared in Esquire, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Saveur, The New York Times, and the Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. Two of his cookbooks have been nominated for a James Beard Award. He has also won a James Beard Award twice for journalism and received Bon Appetit's Food Writer of the Year Award in 2003. James Villas is the author of more than a dozen cookbooks and books on food, including My Mother’s Southern Kitchen and The Glory of Southern Cooking. He lives in East Hampton, New York.