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Classical Southern Cooking

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This is a terrific cookbook that has been out of print for some time. Not only is it full of wonderful recipes, but it presents a bit of history too. One problem though: Amazon is listing this as a hardcover-it's not. They seem to be the only ones making this mistake and it needs correcting.

This book contains great information about cooking in the Old South. It adapts recipes from older cookbooks into a newer, friendlier format, and adjusts the ingredients to what a modern cook might have available.

At 400 pages or so, this book is voluminous, and contains a lot of recipes. I have made a few recipes in this book, and they simply did not turn out that well. I consider myself to be a decent cook, and believe myself to have followed the recipes closely, but there is always the chance that it was my own human error. However, my guess is that my tastes are more accustomed to new southern cooking styles and techniques rather than the authentic Old South recipes it contains.

I do enjoy reading food-related literature, but this book bills itself primary as a recipe book, and secondarily as a history book, as is event from the sheer number of recipes it contains.

In short: great history, but there are better recipe books out there for Southern cuisine.