My Mother's Southern Desserts : More Than 180 Treasured Family Recipes for Holiday and Everyday Celebration

by James Villas, Dennis Gottlieb

This charming cookbook, complemented by full-color photographs, offers more than two hundred dessert recipes to suit any occasion, including Trump Toffee Cookies, Caramel Chewies, Coconut Igloos, and Blueberry Flummery.

Genres: Cookbooks

272 pages, Hardcover

First published October 7, 1998

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.

Reviews

[Kathy Smuz · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you're dieting, this isn't the book for you. (Think Paula Deen-style oodles of butter, cream, eggs, etc.) But if you want a dessert to wow someone, or even just a good old standby, you'll want to scour the second-hand stores for this. Part of the fun is just reading James Villas' running commentary on his mother and the stories behind the recipes. Martha Pearl must have been a feisty soul, and I wish I could have sat at her table. This book is the next best thing. (The Sunshine Chiffon Cake with orange butter frosting is TO DIE FOR!!)

[Kelly Schooler · Rating 4 out of 5]

The recipes for Satan pound cake is worth the price alone

[Ginger Heskett]

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[Denise · Rating 5 out of 5]

Need another copy. Someone tore out 20 pages.

[Liminal Angel · Rating 5 out of 5]

All the recipes I tried were very good.