"Everybody has one in their collection You know one of those old spiral or plastic tooth bound cookbooks sold to support a high school marching band a church or the local chapter of the Junior League These recipe collections reflect with unimpeachable authenticity the dishes that define communities chicken and dumplings macaroni and cheese chess pie When the Southern Foodways Alliance began curating a cookbook it was to these spiral boun ..."
"Craig Claiborne, world traveler, iconic "New York Times" food writer, and author of more than twenty cookbooks, was always a southerner at heart. This is the only one of Claiborne s cookbooks to focus exclusively on the South. It was, he readily admitted, his most personal book.As John T. Edge and Georgeanna Milam note in their foreword, Claiborne, a native of the Mississippi Delta, had a love of southern food that ran deep and wide, sp ..."
"Craig Claiborne, world traveler, iconic New York Times food writer, and author of more than twenty cookbooks, was always a southerner at heart. This is the only one of Claiborneâs cookbooks to focus exclusively on the South. It was, he readily admitted, his most personal book.As John T. Edge and Georgeanna Milam note in their foreword, Claiborne, a native of the Mississippi Delta, had a love of southern food that ran deep and wide, sp ..."