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True Grits: The Southern Foods Mail-Order Catalog [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Joni Miller (Author)
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Book Description

January 9, 1990
Inspired by its Southern author's frustrating search for her favorite grits from her Northern home, True Grits is a Southern grocery store between two covers. This guide-a necessity for anyone with Southern roots or a fondness for Southern food-provides ordering information for more than 150 essential Southern ingredients and handmade specialty foods now available beyond the Mason-Dixon line. Now it's easy to stock our pantries with White Lily Flour, cans of Ro*Tel tomatoes, pickled okra, Goo Goo Clusters, ten different barbecue sauces, sweets from Kern's Kitchen Derby Pie to Warrenton Plum Pudding-and, of course, grits.

True Grits is also a fascinating journey into Southern culture, with food festivals, folklore, unusual recipes, nostalgia, and side-bars-the Dr. Pepper Story, how to handle a country ham, and more. Finally the larder of the South is open to kitchens across the country. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.


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A PIGGLY WIGGLY IN YOUR MAILBOX

From Virginia hams to Cajun yams, Goo Goo Clusters to Kern's Kitchen Derbyr Pie, TRUE GRITS offers the best of the South, with instructions on ordering well over 150 delicacies and necessities even Southerners didn't know were available through the mail. The food sources listed range from large companies with catalogs and 800 numbers to one-family operations run out of a mill, farm, or home. Includes 30 recipes.

"A crazy old rice farmer in South Louisiana."

--Ellis Sansel on Ellis Stansel

Even if Ellis Stansel were selling quart jars of mud, you'd get a kick out of doing business with him. Luckily this septuagenarian second-generation rice farmer happens to grow and sell and absolutely superb-tasting special rice that ought to be a staple in every household. It's a long-grain, hybrid strain with the smell and flavor of popping corn. There is no catalog or price list because Ellis wants you to give him a call so he can get to know you, and his order-filling is the epitome of personal service. -from TRUE GRITS

About the Author

Joni Miller is the author of The Collectible Teapot & Tea Calendar and is a regular contributor to Omni, Connoisseur, Ms., and 7-Days. A proud "conch" (native-born Key Wester) who grew up all over the South, she now lives in Greenwich Village.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (January 9, 1990)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0894803441
  • ISBN-13: 978-0894803444
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #971,182 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, June 21, 2000
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This review is from: True Grits: The Southern Foods Mail-Order Catalog (Paperback)
This book is a fantastic resourse for finding those hard to get recipies and Southern products. You can save a lot of time reading this book compared to searching on the web. Not growing up in the South or not having traveled there I had very little knowledge of; Southern cooking, recipies, and products. For those people who live and stay on the west cost... get a clue with this wonderful book. Discover new flavors, textures, and great recipies to intrigrate into your every day life style. You can never go wrong with stone ground buttered grits.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Happy with each mail order gift, November 29, 2011
This review is from: True Grits: The Southern Foods Mail-Order Catalog (Paperback)
I purchased this book years ago and was hoping they have printed an update. Gifts I've previously ordered: stone ground grits, mammoth pecans,the white Lily flour for biscuits and tea cakes and garnet yams. I received thank-you notes and rave reviews from each recipient. The trick to using this guide; choose a food you already love and when you taste the freshly picked, freshly milled, freshly baked version - you will love it even more!
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