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The New Low-Country Cooking: 125 Recipes for Coastal Southern Cooking with Innovative Style

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I collect many books on cooking and always enjoy subjects related to Southern fare, especially from the Low Country of South Carolina. This book really hits the mark with some unique as well updated Southern classics. As with most books written by professional chefs, the list of ingredients can sometime be a turnoff to a novice cook. Don't let that stop you! Anyone who enjoys the challenge will relish the opportunity to sample some really spectacular offerings. I can't wait to try the The Carolina Crab Cakes with Dill Lemon Dressing and the Peach Tea Couscous is unusual, but a refreshing touch to this somewhat plain grain. I also purchased the Louis Osteen's Charleston Cuisine. Both books are a wonderful representation of this rich, culinary part of the USA.

Insightful without being fussy or new age. The man obviously knows the culture and history behind this regional cooking. The attention to rice, sauces, and other basics is helpful and a terrific refresher course.

The buttermilk biscuit receipe is foolproof and an absolute winner. If a cook can present a receipe this well, he has my attention and appreciation.

What is next, Marvin????

greg leaf glorieta, new mexico

This book offers incredible recipes that truly convey the flair of low-country cuisine. If you are looking to expand your cooking horizons with the addition of robust and creative dishes from the charming south, this is the roadmap that will get you there. Inventive dishes and practically goof proof instruction. This man has made it easy to bring spicy elegance to the dinner table. I recently bought this after seeing him cook on the discovery channel and I have been eating these dishes ever since. Buy this book - you wont be disappointed.

This is one of my favorite cookbooks, especially after spending a summer in Charleston last year. I was raised on very traditional southern cooking, and I was looking for something that added a bit of gourmet flair to traditional recipes (and made them a bit healthier). This cookbook does it beautifully, and has a lot of nice background on low country cooking, food traditions, and history. The collard greens and gumbo recipes are just spectacular. I like too that there are basic recipes for things like hoppin john and plain old rice. No pretty pictures, but the volume of recipes more than makes up for it.

If you are looking for something reminiscent of your grandma's cooking in the fifties, with lots of fatback and crisco, you won't find it here. But I think this is a much tastier, healthier turn on my favorite little bit of southern food.

The New Low-Country Cooking: 125 Recipes for Coastal Southern Cooking with Innovative Style
Do you like to eat southern cooked foods, but being a "Yankee" (like me), don't know how to cook them? Well here is the cook-book for you. Easy to follow recipies for your favorate meals like grandma, and great-grandma used to prepare when I was a lad. Recipies for sothern fried fish, chicken, shrimp, ducks and pork-roasts and steaks...and don't forget the Bar-B-Q ribs! Vegetable and salid recipies too, and more. Will have you screaming out...Hooray for dixie!

I bought this book for a present. As a past resident of the Low-Country, I had high expectations for the recipes and pictures in this cookbook. It didn't hardy have any pictures, which I think is a major shortcoming of any cookbook. Also, the recipe titles and presentations were dull. I ended up keeping the cookbook because I didn't think it was present-worthy.

This book was given to me as a gift by a friend who usually has great taste. After giving the book a good read (as much as a person can read a cookbook), I was left completely disappointed. It seems as if not much work went into this cookbook at all, and I was left completely uninspired. Given the thousands of great books out there covering the same cuisine, I would recommend others to not waste their time. I would return it in a second had it not been a gift. Into the attic it goes...

I LOVE this cookbook! The BEST spicy southern fried chicken ever! All the recipes are pretty simple and delicious. I just wish he'd written a 2nd book!!! YUM YUM!!!!

an excellent cookbook on a regional cuisine. excellent and accurate choice of recipes (although i wish there were more chicken dinner ones). these recipes are perfect for flavorful basic meals. this is without question the book i use most, especially for sunday dinner. i have passed along the mac/cheese recipe to dozens of folks. the smothered chicken recipe is a staple in our house. try the butternut squash succotash or the spiced apple pie or the stewed chicken. they're can't miss and delicious

the food in this collection isn't fancy or fussy, but it is very very good. this book is best suited for everday folks who have cooking and eating as an integral part of daily home life.

This is a wonderful cookbook, with all the southern cookbooks out there this has to be the simplest one I've used that delivers southern food with a gourmet touch BUT without the complications that gourmet recipes sometimes present to the home cook. DELICIOUS, DELICIOUS