The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Cookbook: Recipes and Reflections from FORREST GUMP [Hardcover]

Editors of Southern Living Magazine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1994

Forrest Gump stepped out of the pages of Winston Groom’s novel, up onto the silver screen, and into the hearts of more than 30 million Americans. If you’re lucky, you count yourself among them.

Now you can open to any page... and just like Forrest’s mama said about life... “You never know what you’re gonna get.” There are shrimp kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, shrimp cocktail... over 75 recipes all told, and every mouth-watering one of them heaven-sent.

And speaking of heaven, Forrest wanted to remember his mama with these recipes, and his best friend, Bubba, too. And he didn’t want Li’l Forrest to grow up without knowing the Gump family shrimp secrets. These recipes are so downright delicious, you’ll know that “miracles do happen every day.”

Forrest Gump has never been a man to complicate things... he’s a simple man, but one who “knows what love is.” Try some of the shrimp recipes in this book, and you’ll know what he means.

Forrest’s mama loved the South, and its magazine, Southern Living®. “They just have a way with food,” she used to say. Try these shrimp fixings, all tested in the Southern Living kitchens, and you’ll say his mama was right every time. Even if the President of the United States knocks on your door, you’ll have the very thing to put on his plate. Tell him Forrest Gump said to say hello... and to remember his own mama.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Over seventy shrimp recipes present a wealth of seafood dishes paired with Gump's own reflections in quotes. Many are quick to produce, and all explore a vast variety of seafood potentials. -- Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Launched in 1966, Southern Living® magazine set out to find the best the South had to offer and to bring it to life on the printed page. Today, Southern Living reaches 16 million readers monthly and is renowned for great food and gracious entertaining. The Test Kitchens of Southern Living tested this all-star recipe collection and brings readers the treasured recipes of FOREST GUMP.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 108 pages
• Publisher: Oxmoor House; 1 edition (October 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0848714792
• ISBN-13: 978-0848714796
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 0.5 x 7.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #250,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #78 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Cooking by Ingredient > Meat, Poultry & Seafood > Seafood

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Recipes to Go With a Great Movie, March 7, 2006

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Virginia Allain "(retired librarian)" (Poinciana, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Cookbook: Recipes and Reflections from FORREST GUMP (Hardcover)

Flip through the book and savor the sound of shrimp kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, shrimp cocktail and all sorts of ways to cook and eat shrimp. This has 75 recipes, so there's bound to be some that suit your tastes.
You can bake it: Millionaire Stuffed Shrimp, Alabama-Style Shrimp Bake, Bubba's Beer-Broiled Shrimp, Shrimp Pizza Wedges, etc.
You can barbecue it: Lime-Barbecued Shrimp, Grilled Orange Shrimp Salad, and a couple of others.
You can boil it: Spicy Shrimp Dip, Real Smooth Shrimp Butter, Mighty Nice Shrimp Cheese Ball, Lt. Dan's Lemon Shrimp, Smiley Face Shrimp, Oriental Shrimp Salad, Shrimp and Cheese Omelet, and plenty more.
You can fry it: Crispy Sweet-and-Sour Shrimp, Coconut Fried Shrimp, Walnut Fried Shrimp, Mama Blue's Shrimp Patties, and a few others.
You can saute it: Shrimp Hot Brown, New Year's Steak 'n' Shrimp, Shrimp Flambe (with White Wine Sauce and Hollandaise Sauce!), Shrimp and Refried Rice, Sizzlin' Szechuan Shrimp, etc.
Goes real good with: Old-Fashioned Sweet Coleslaw, Bubba's Cocktail Sauce, Delta Dunkin' Sauce, Cracklin' Cornbread, Southern Hush Puppies, and one or two other things.
The recipes are simple and easy.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, lacking a shrimp/spinach dip reciepe., December 14, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Cookbook: Recipes and Reflections from FORREST GUMP (Hardcover)

Great book, I use it all the time. I've used ever reciepe at least twice. I was just disappointed because a friend of mine has a cookbook she order from the movie that has a shrimp dip w/spinach in it. I bought the movie but I didn't have an order form in my video cassette box. But if you like shrimp every way you can think of then this is the book for you.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DELICIOUS!!!, February 2, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Cookbook: Recipes and Reflections from FORREST GUMP (Hardcover)

If you like seafood, if you LOVE shrimp, this is the cookbook for you. Every recipe in here is scruptious, delicious, mouth watering. And the reference to the movie are heartwarming. A wonderful gift, a prized possession