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White Trash Cooking II: Recipes for Gatherins (Vol 2)

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For the record, "White Trash Cooking II" was originally published as "Sinkin Spells, Hot Flashes, Fits and Cravins" and although the order info says it is hardback, it is a spiral-bound soft cover. But no matter --- BUY IT!

I have the original "White Trash Cookbook" and this is more of the same. Anyone can cook like this and you don't need all those expensive, fancy herbs and spices. In fact, you don't need much more than salt and pepper. I sit and read these cookbooks like novels. They remind me of my simple roots and I feel like these people are my people. These books are portals to honest and simple times, people and food.

Author, Enest Matthew Mickler has done it again. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of white trash cookin, Ernie brings us another wheelbarrow load of recipes for feeding the hordes and masses. Mouthwatering dishes like Big Ruby Dukes's Peachadillies, Tammy Faye's Tumped Tuna Jump and Aunt Sarah's Stepped on Cornbread will make your next cemetery cleanin, family reunion or home demonstration party the best invite in town. Bone' appe'titee!

Just as in the original "White Trash Cooking", there are recipes here, but more of an emphasis on cooking for groups. The various situations that call for group food are presented -- quilting bees, funerals, reunions, obligatory holidays. Each chapter is prefaced by a short story illustrating the heart of white trash. The photos are truly astounding, and as in the first book, a big part of the book's appeal. These people don't ever apologize for being white-trash -- they're simple, unvarnished, and neighborly. So is their food.

The recipes are even more outrageously white-trashy than in the first book -- while there are several recipes I tried from the first, there aren't as many that I'd call accessible in this one. I also find dialect-writing difficult to follow. Still, the last chapter is truly touching: An eloquent plea for people to cook with their own hands, instead of relying on store-bought "mummafied" food. Well said!

They aren't kidding when they say white trash. It's a beautiful thing! It's tacky, tacky, tacky and a pure joy. the stuff under "sinkin' spells" has a special fondness in my heart. These are recipes you will return to. You have two choices with this book. Either show it to people and have a good laugh or keep it hidden away and never tell a soul. You can't do anything half way with this book.

If you've seen #1, then this is more of the same. The stories are so good, you'll laugh out loud. The photographs are also great, though I prefer those in #1 by a smidgeon. Oh, yea, there are recipes in this one too. I like the ones that say, "you can mess with this and it will turn out fine." I'm not much of a cook, though my husband is.

I have both White Trash Cookin' Books and have given them as gifts. The stories as well as the recipes will have you in stitches. The recipes are good eats too. Highly recommend this book.

I was tired of getting my mom the typical Mother's Day gifts, so I turned to cookbooks. Instead of typical cookbooks, I got my mother White Trash Cooking and White Trash Cooking II to play on the fact that she and my father relocated to Mississippi in recent years.

While I myself have not had the pleasure of reading these, they were a huge hit. We're just wondering where to get our hands on a cooter to cook up....

For anyone interested in the cooking--and dining!--practices of our Southern cousins whose incomes are on the lower end of the scale, this delightful cookbook (the second of two) presents many mouth-watering recipes for fish, fowl, beasts of the field, and home-grown veggies (try the one for "greens": yum, yum). Also appealing are the numerous photographs of the creators and consumers of the mouth-watering dishes. Fun to read: a Must for cookbook collectors!

Great recipes with stuff you already have. It is funny but some of the recipes are really good.

This is truly an awesome cookbook. So many of the recopes remind me of my grandmothers cooking. This book is fun to read and has wonderful pictures.