Features
ISBN Number: 9780684818788
Written by: Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
Published by: Fireside Books
Location: New York :
Filed Under: Cookery, american
Filed Under: American, Southern States
Filed Under: Cookery for One
Filed Under: Florida
Filed Under: Methods, Cookery for One
Filed Under: Regional & Ethnic, American, Southern States
Filed Under: General Cooking
Edition Number: 1st Fireside ed.
Edition Description: B102
Series Volume: monograph 13
Date of Publication: March 1996
Cover Type: Paperback
Grade Level: General/trade
Written in: English
Illustrations: Yes
Number of Pages: 256
Book Size: 8.46x5.50x.61 in. .78 lbs.
The Classic Book on southern cookingFirst published in 1942, Cross Creek Cookery was compiled by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings at the request of readers who wanted to recreate the luscious meals described in Cross Creek — her famous memoir of life in a Florida hamlet.
Lovers of old-fashioned, down-home cooking will treasure the recipes for Grits, Hush-Puppies, Florida Fried Fish, Orange Fluff, and Utterly Deadly Southern Pecan Pie. For more adventuresome palates, there are such unusual dishes as Minorcan Gopher Stew, Coot Surprise, Alligator-Tail Steak, Mayhaw Jelly, and Chef Huston's Cream of Peanut Soup.
Spiced with delightful anecdotes and lore, Cross Creek Cookery guides the reader through the rich culinary heritage of the deep tidal South with a loving regard for the rituals of cooking and eating. Anyone who longs for food — and writing — that warms the heart will find ample portions of both in this classic cookbook.
Synopsis:
A companion to Rawlings' Cross Creek--the author's account of her life in a small Florida hamlet--this collection of traditional Southern recipes is spiced with delightful anecdotes and lore. "One of the best and most concentrated and most authentic books on
southern cooking".--Craig Claiborne. Illustrations.
