True Grits: The Southern Foods Mail-Order Catalog [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

~ Joni Miller (Author)

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The first complete source guide to hard-to-find, must-have Southern foods. With up-to-date mail-order information for more than 150 products, it uncovers the essential ingredients that even Southerners didn't know were available by mail. Packed with regional lore, spicy sidebars, and dozens of unusual recipes. Photos and line drawings throughout.

From the Back Cover

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

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; illustrated edition edition (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: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,494,379 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, June 21, 2000

By A Customer

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.