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ANNE RITCHINGS's avatar

So hard to pick a favorite Southern Cookbook.Maybe Hoppin' John's Low Country Cooking by Joan Martine Taylor. It is one I refer to often.

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🍒 🍋 Nic Miller 🍋🍒's avatar

My two favourite Southern cookbooks are by James Villas (The Glory of Southern Cooking) and Lena Richard's New Orleans Kitchen. Should you pull my name out, please donate a book to a charity you think will benefit. (Can't have you paying UK postage!)

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samantha's avatar

My mom is from Georgia, and when I was younger, she made the best biscuits. Looking forward to checking this cookbook out!

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DPLK's avatar

I have a growing collection of southern themed baking books, love everything by Cheryl Day!! Also Anne Byrn’s book is such a treasure, I love all the historical baking books she’s written. This book seems like a great new tradition for ATK in how they do books!

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Sharon Frye's avatar

It’s an oldie, but a goodie, the Sweet Potato Queens’ Big Ass Cookbook (and financial planner) from Jill Conner Browne. I also love everything from Vivian Howard.

This new style of ATK cookbooks makes me very happy. Even though I live in the semi south, I don’t really have a lot of southern cookbooks, but I have had this particular book for years and years and years. It’s a really funny take on the south of course.

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Andrew Janjigian's avatar

Sharon - You won the book!! Please email me with your address!

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Sharon Frye's avatar

Excellent!! Thank you!!

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Colleen Nelson's avatar

I would love this book:) Gullah Geechee Home Cooking is a great book, and the classic White Trash Cooking:)

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Julie's avatar

I’m from the Midwest originally and moved to the South as an adult, first to Georgia and now in North Carolina. Vivian Howard first inspired me to appreciate and experiment with Southern food traditions. Her TV show A Chef’s Life made me a fan, and subsequently I met her in person - she was just as real and delightful as she seemed on TV.

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andrea's avatar

I'd love a copy of this book! I'm not from the south, but I love biscuits and gravy.

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Melissa's avatar

Cheryl Day. Edna Lewis. Emily R. Nunn. Vivian Howard. I can’t choose just one!

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Larry Lowary's avatar

I'v e found inspiration from Jennifer Lapidus and her amazing book "Southern Ground"

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Jonathan Mandel's avatar

I'll go with the Cafe Cook Book, by Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers. They're from the [other] South: South London.

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Kathy Keyes's avatar

Not done, not done, not done - burnt by Gilllian Clark

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GinaG's avatar

Cheryl Day Treasury of Southern Baking and Tara Jensen A Baker's Year. Thank you for your work!

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Sherry M's avatar

Lisa Fain is the Southern cook whose recipes I use most often these days. Moving away after 29 years in Texas has meant learning to make lots of things for myself. I’ve also been working my way through The Biscuit Head Cookbook, which is my favorite restaurant in my new locale.

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Breck Sullivan-Carpenter's avatar

I am old, but I lived in TN when I was not (1979-1980)... LOL. But being from Boston, the biscuits just /blew me away/! And I still swear by Paula Deen's recipe I scribbed from a library cook book in 1982. My northern family (I returned to New England a yr later, but those biscuits haunted me :>) enjoy her buttermilk biscuit recipe. But some days I make the other non-buttermilk to enjoy as well.

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EDV's avatar

Part of my education was in NC and southern cooking was a revelation. Mildred Council of Mama Dip’s in Chapel Hill taught us all about proper fried chicken, meat and three veg, stewed collards, and the best biscuits. Would love to reconnect with the region!

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