Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook
by: Martha Hall Foose
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Gifted chef and storyteller Martha Hall Foose invites you into her kitchen to share recipes that bring alive the landscape, people, and traditions that make Southern cuisine an American favorite.
Born and raised in Mississippi, Foose cooks Southern food with a contemporary flair: Sweet Potato Soup is enhanced with coconut milk and curry powder; Blackberry Limeade gets a lift from a secret ingredient–cardamom; and her much-ballyhooed Sweet Tea Pie combines two great Southern staples–sweet tea and pie, of course–to make one phenomenal signature dessert. The more than 150 original recipes are not only full of flavor, but also rich with local color and characters.
As the executive chef of the Viking Cooking School, teaching thousands of home cooks each year, Foose crafts recipes that are the perfect combination of delicious, creative, and accessible. Filled with humorous and touching tales as well as useful information on ingredients, techniques, storage, shortcuts, variations, and substitutions, Screen Doors and Sweet Tea is a must-have for the American home cook–and a must-read for anyone who craves a return to what cooking is all about: comfort, company, and good eating.
Gifted chef and storyteller Martha Hall Foose invites you into her kitchen to share recipes that bring alive the landscape, people, and traditions that make Southern cuisine an American favorite.
Born and raised in Mississippi, Foose cooks Southern food with a contemporary flair: Sweet Potato Soup is enhanced with coconut milk and curry powder; Blackberry Limeade gets a lift from a secret ingredient–cardamom; and her much-ballyhooed Sweet Tea Pie combines two great Southern staples–sweet tea and pie, of course–to make one phenomenal signature dessert. The more than 150 original recipes are not only full of flavor, but also rich with local color and characters.
As the executive chef of the Viking Cooking School, teaching thousands of home cooks each year, Foose crafts recipes that are the perfect combination of delicious, creative, and accessible. Filled with humorous and touching tales as well as useful information on ingredients, techniques, storage, shortcuts, variations, and substitutions, Screen Doors and Sweet Tea is a must-have for the American home cook–and a must-read for anyone who craves a return to what cooking is all about: comfort, company, and good eating.
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- Love that southern flair
Have only read some of this book but love what I've read. Anyone who loves cooking , the south, and southern hospitality should surely enjoy this book!
Rating: - Excellent Representation of Southern Cooking
I just recently purchased this cookbook and as a lifetime southern cook, I found it to be an outstanding representation of our southern food.The stories and history included are fantastic.The photography is gorgeous.And, yes, the recipes are atypical of true southern cooking.
There are a couple of very unfair 1-star and 2-star review ratings about this cookbook and frankly in my humble opinion, they both should be totally disregarded.
All of the authors named in ... Read More
Rating: - A Southern Sojourn
What a wonderful book! I should say books, as I now have both a cookbook and a charming, funny and gentle read before bed.
The recipes are completely on target...true Southern specialties. What a treat to fix fried chicken and sweet tea in the post-nouveau-micro-cuisine world.We all need a bit of real food after reviewing our 401Ks and finding that little pink paper gift from our (now!)former employers.
A return to gentility, waving hello to strangers from our front porch, ... Read More
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- Much Ado About Nothin'
I bought not one but TWO copies, full price, after hearing much exclaiming about how great it was, a must-have, a collectible, blah blah.I'm not usually this gullible a buyer, but I do have an extensive cookbook library and I thought having this Mississippi author would be a valued addition.
I don't know why it simply fell flat for me.Perhaps I'd had enough of that Southern-fried folksy story-tellin' stuff after the OVERsupply ad nauseam) of Sweet Potato Queen nonsense, and enough of ... Read More
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- Pretty Book...Nice Book...Not Much of A Southern Cookbook
One more pseudo "Southern" cookbook!If you want a real Southern cookbook, buy Jean Anderson, Damon Lee Fowler, James Villas, or Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock.
If you want a book which drifts towards the South but misses, spend your money on this one.
- Love that southern flairHave only read some of this book but love what I've read. Anyone who loves cooking , the south, and southern hospitality should surely enjoy this book!
- Excellent Representation of Southern CookingI just recently purchased this cookbook and as a lifetime southern cook, I found it to be an outstanding representation of our southern food.The stories and history included are fantastic.The photography is gorgeous.And, yes, the recipes are atypical of true southern cooking.
There are a couple of very unfair 1-star and 2-star review ratings about this cookbook and frankly in my humble opinion, they both should be totally disregarded.
All of the authors named in ... Read More
- A Southern SojournWhat a wonderful book! I should say books, as I now have both a cookbook and a charming, funny and gentle read before bed.
The recipes are completely on target...true Southern specialties. What a treat to fix fried chicken and sweet tea in the post-nouveau-micro-cuisine world.We all need a bit of real food after reviewing our 401Ks and finding that little pink paper gift from our (now!)former employers.
A return to gentility, waving hello to strangers from our front porch, ... Read More
- Much Ado About Nothin'I bought not one but TWO copies, full price, after hearing much exclaiming about how great it was, a must-have, a collectible, blah blah.I'm not usually this gullible a buyer, but I do have an extensive cookbook library and I thought having this Mississippi author would be a valued addition.
I don't know why it simply fell flat for me.Perhaps I'd had enough of that Southern-fried folksy story-tellin' stuff after the OVERsupply ad nauseam) of Sweet Potato Queen nonsense, and enough of ... Read More
- Pretty Book...Nice Book...Not Much of A Southern CookbookOne more pseudo "Southern" cookbook!If you want a real Southern cookbook, buy Jean Anderson, Damon Lee Fowler, James Villas, or Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock.
If you want a book which drifts towards the South but misses, spend your money on this one.
