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Family Recipes From Rosedown and Catalpa Plantations

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I'm not a food geek (I'm a hella dishwasher, though!), but I enjoyed reading "Family Recipes From Rosedown & Catalpa Plantations". There's quite a lot of social history larded in among the cooking instructions, and I had a great time leafing through it. It would be a fine addition to the bookshelves of anyone interested in southern American history, cooking, lifestyles, or antebellum daily life.

My husband, Joe, *is* a food geek, and here's what he sez: "..when Giles and I went to New Orleans, we spent a good deal of time in the old house museums (I know... hard to believe - NOT!). The docent at the first one was probably the most knowledgeable docent I have ever run into. At the end of the tour, he noticed me in the gift shop drooling over the reprints of old cookbooks. As it turns out, he has just written a cookbook with redactions of about 300 of the 500 recipes that he had found (yes, FOUND!) in the attics of two of the plantation homes where he has also docented. (WHY do things like this never happen to me?)
If you are a historic-food geak like I am, I highly recommend it. It is a wealth of knowledge in terms of historical background, while also containing some pretty darned interesting and cool recipes."

This is a pretty good one. Some good Southern recipes, but for some reason, I sorta expected more.