The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner) [Paperback]

Jill Conner Browne (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 7, 2003

They’re wild, beloved, and all-around fabulous, but with the Sweet Potato Queens, there’re just never enough good times—or enough good eats. Well, now all fabulous women everywhere can have their own mountains of royal fun and food, because bestselling author and Boss Queen Jill Conner Browne is revealing her big-ass top secret recipes—and the events that inspired them—in The Sweet Potato Queens’ Big-Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner). And, of course, she’s dishing up plenty of hilarious stories, including:

• Queenly adventures in mothering
•The tiniest bit of plastic surgery
• The all-true story of the Cutest Boy in the World

And, oh yes, as promised:
• Sound financial planning. Tip number one: Hope that Daddy lives forever.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Browne's third tasty outing (following Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love in 1999 and God Save the Sweet Potato Queens in 2001) finds the Boss Queen taking on Betty Crocker (source of "some of the insane ideas we have struggled with and against for the last 50 years") and channeling Suze Orman for financial advice ("There's a lot to be said for rich old guys with bad hearts and no relatives, but you can't always get what you want"). Culinarily challenged readers will be happy to find this book's main course is still Browne's hilarious anecdotes and observations about enjoying life after 40. She caps each escapade with the perfect artery-clogging recipes (with names like "Whatchamacallit Chicken," "Gooiest Cake in the World," "Bitch Bar Bacon Swimps" and "Pig Candy"-bacon rolled in brown sugar). Whether she's dealing with her mother having a stroke, confessing her obsession with buying a cement monkey or waxing on the joys of wigs or her potential second career as a plastic surgery consultant, Browne is riotously funny and human. Fans will be charmed when she falls in love with a younger man ("who totally missed Motown because he wasn't born yet") or reveals the recipe for Nuclia's Secret Weapon Hair Spray: Elmer's glue and water. Browne and her stable of Queens (no one with any taste would utter the word "drag" in their presence) show no signs of abdicating their hold on readers. Long live the Queens!
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

praise for Jill Conner Browne, the sweet potato Queen

“You don’t have to be from the South . . . you just have to like laughing out loud, a lot.”
—Chicago Tribune

“This is not reading for the faint of heart. You could die laughing.”—St. Petersburg Times

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1 edition (January 7, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 060980877X
• ISBN-13: 978-0609808771
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.8 x 7.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #4 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Vegetables & Vegetarian > Potatoes

More About the Author

Jill Conner Browne is the New York Times bestselling author of six Sweet Potato Queens books. She lives and writes on all things Queenly from Jackson, Mississippi.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well, you just gotta laugh., March 21, 2003

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Maureen Mangon (Fairhope, AL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner) (Paperback)

This book is impossible. You cannot explain it. You cannot describe it. You cannot put it down. You cannot stop laughing. You cannot not identify with much of it. You cannot stop your friends from wanting your copy. You cannot stop re-reading it. You cannot stop yourself from trying the recipes. Other than the above, my advice is grab one for yourself.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic SPQ Manifesto, January 16, 2003

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This review is from: The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner) (Paperback)

This is another laugh-till-you-cry offering from Jill Conner Browne, the Boss Queen of all Sweet Potato Queens. It was so funny, I read it in one sitting! While not as full of the exploits of the Tammys as the two previous offerings, Jill skillfully links together her uproariously funny prose with actual recipes that she has collected or been given. Topics range from her mother moving in with her (which leads to a need for pie) to the Cutest Boy in the World, whose mother makes the Sweet Potato Stuff. Buy your very own copy because you'll have to read it more than once, and because the Queens are opposed to book-loaning, as it cuts into their plastic surgery fund!

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LAUAGHING ALL THE WEIGH, January 24, 2003

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Gail Cooke (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner) (Audio Cassette)

Jill Conner Browne, popular author of "The Sweet Potato Queens' Book Of Love" and "God Save The Sweet Potato Queens," gives equal measures of sassiness and sense to her rollicking reading of her latest royal report.

The author now spends full-time touring and lecturing to her contingents of loyal subjects, and so she should because she is the true voice of the Sweet Potato Queen, whether she is going toe-to-toe with Betty Crocker whom she identifies as responsible for "some of the insane ideas we have struggled with and against for the last 50 years" or urging royalists to combat aging by becoming blond no matter what.

As for Ms. Browne's tips on financial planning - who else would recommend starting a trust fund to cover costs associated with menopause?

Of this audiobook the author said, "Recording this audiobook was a dream come true. I got hours on end dedicated simply to talking about food and telling stories about my best friends. I had to stop recording a few times when the laughing got out of control, and I hope you'll be laughing along in your kitchen or car."

You bet we are!

- Gail Cooke