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You Are Where You Eat: Stories and Recipes from the Neighborhoods of New Orleans

Elsa Hahne

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Editorial Review:

Eating and cooking well are not just industries but ways of life for all New Orleans. Writer and photographer Elsa Hahne has visited the kitchens of thirty-three of New Orleans's home cooks and raconteurs and has served up an expansive smorgasbord inspired by this vibrant city's love affair with food.

Almost every cultural group that has made its mark on New Orleans is represented in these pages: Creole, African American, Native American, Isleño, German, Cajun, Italian, Irish, Greek, Hungarian, Croatian, Cuban, Honduran, Mexican, Indian, Filipino, Chinese, Vietnamese, and more.

With thirty-three first-person accounts and over one hundred black-and-white and full-color photographs, You Are Where You Eat proves that the local population remains as passionate about cooking after the hurricanes of 2005 as at any time before. Among the eighty-five recipes are such classic New Orleans dishes as red beans and rice, catfish court bouillon, crawfish bisque, filé gumbo, grillades, and daube glacé, but also more recent arrivals to local tables: yakamein, pork tamales, crawfish samosas, and Vietnamese spring rolls.

Elsa Hahne is the creator of the touring exhibit You Are WHERE You Eat--Stories and Recipes from the Crescent City, which was supported by the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Her work has appeared in numerous international magazines and newspapers.

Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House Cookbook: A Celebration of Traditional Southern Dishes that Made Miss Mary Bobo's--An American Legend

Pat Mitchamore, Lynne Tolley

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Total reviews: 17 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Sinfully Good Eating 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

Once upon a time when folks made the trip to Lynchburg to visit that famous distillery, they had to stop at Mary Bobo's boarding house, because to pass up one of her home-cooked meals if your were so close would be nothing short of a mortal sin. Mary lived to be a hundred and one, leaving us in Nineteen Eighty-three, but you can still sample her delicious home-cooked fare by faithfully following the recipes in this book.

However, this is more than just a cookbook. There are many wonderful boarding house stories housed within these covers, so you can read a bit about Miss Mary Evans and her Beau during her courting days, or learn a bit about porch sitting, or even see a picture of Al Gore with Mary on her 99th birthday.

Last night I made up Miz Crutcher's Convent Pudding, which is a whole lot like the Macaroni Pie you can get anywhere in Trinidad. It's delicious and easy to make. In the book it explains that this was served a lot during WW II, because of shortages and the fact that people didn't have very much. Well it's still being served in the Caribbean, probably for the same reasons.

I've also done Mary Bobo's Baked Turkey with Cornbread Dreassing and let me tell you, scrumptious. Don't be lookin' for low fat, fancy dancy, new age cooking here, but what the heck, once and a while you just have to have an old-fashioned, down home, doggone good, sinful meal. And if that's what you're looking for, look no further. Five stars from me for this super book.

Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne

Editorial Review:

This collection of over 300 recipes is a celebration of the traditional southern cooking that made this Lynchburg, Tennessee boarding house a legend. Many recipes use Jack Daniel's whiskey. Illustrated and indexed.

Southern Living 2006 Annual Recipes (Southern Living Annual Recipes)

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Southern Living Annual Recipes 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.

My wife and mother-in-law really love these Southern Living Annual Recipe books. I've purchased all the annual books & select other Sothern Living books for each of them for many years. Husbands & son-in-laws, purchasing these books is a quick & easy way to take care of part of your holiday & birthday shopping. Plus the food is great as well. Enjoy!!!

Editorial Review:

For culinary connoisseurs, the Southern Living annual recipe collection is a must-have. That’s because it serves up every tasty recipe from the past year, nearly 1,000 in all. From large family-style meals, to easy-to-pull-together weekend brunches, to everyday family-pleasing treats—with gorgeous photographs, step-by-step instructions, and more than a dash of genteel Southern charm and style. Not that you have to be from the South, by any means, to enjoy these mouthwatering recipes. (Just don’t tell that to Southerners.) Features:

Step-by-step directions, timesaving tips, and savory secrets

Features the 2006 Southern Living Cook-Off winners

4 convenient indexes, easy-to-find ingredients, simple substitutions

Recipe tags make finding favorites a breeze

Aunt Bee's Mayberry Cookbook

Ken Beck, Jim Clark

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

cute but disappointing 3 out of 5 stars.
10 of 12 people found this review helpful.

I think the black and white episodes of the Andy Griffith Show are probably the best examples of American TV ever made, so I was thrilled to order this book. There are no photos at all which makes it tedious to flip through. Also, every recipe insists on having a character's name in the title. It's cute for the first few pages but gets tiresome very quickly. I can't imagine Ernest T. Bass cooking anything and if he did I don't believe I would want to try it. However, there are many, many pieces of dialogue reproduced exactly as they were said on the show and it is delightful to read them! How funny simple American dialect can be... This book is a fun momento of the classic Americana sitcom, but don't expect to cook much from it.

A waste of my money 1 out of 5 stars.
3 of 5 people found this review helpful.

I bought this book from amazon last year and was very let down. First of all, the quality is poor- the pages are very thin- it looks like cheap copy paper printed at a corner shop (the print quality is not great), especially with the cheap plastic ring binders.

This book is not an official recipe book filled with actual recipes used on the show. It's not even all Southern cooking since some of the recipes are not even from the south. Many sounded very unappetizing. Too many recipes called for canned soups and other ready made items as opposed to being made from scratch. I didn't see many recipes that looked like it would produce what Aunt Bee served on TV. I agree with the reviewer who said that using character names for the recipes got very old.

I gave my book to Goodwill.

Editorial Review:

Contains more than 300 recipes served by Aunt Bee and others on The Andy Griffith Show. Includes wonderful, rare photos from the show and interesting sidebars. Illustrated and indexed.

A Cowboy in the Kitchen: Recipes from Reata and Texas West of the Pecos

Grady Spears, Robb Walsh, James Evans

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The Best Damn Cookbook to Come out of Texas! 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

As an avid cook and an amateur collector of quality cookbooks, I've seen a lot of theme cookbooks like this that are often more story that recipe. This cookbook combines both and is my absolute favorite cookbook ever! The recipes are amazing (though to all of you out there counting points/carbs/calories, etc., this is probably not for you), the back story is interesting, and the knowledge expressed in these pages is priceless to anyone from an aspiring weeknight cook to the most recent C.I.A. graduate (the cooking school, not the espionage organization). In short, there's something for everyone, and everyone will love the food from this book. As I write this, I'm enjoying the buttermilk biscuits that in a few days I will make into the buttermilk biscuit pudding with Southern Comfort cream!

Editorial Review:

Grady Spears has won a real following, and garnered an IACP Julia Child Award nomination, for the updated cowboy classics at Texas's noted Reata Restaurant. From innovative Tex-Mex flavors to perfectly prepared steaks to sinfully rich desserts, this is a book for the cowboy in all of us.

Ruby Ann's Down Home Trailer Park Cookbook

Ruby Ann Boxcar

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

A Great Gag Gift !!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Purchased five [5] of these as gag Christmas Gifts !! The only problem was that I should have ordered more !! Books arrived quickly and in excellent condition !!

LAUGHTER, TRAILER PARKS AND RECIPES!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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THIS IS ANOTHER AMAZING SUPER FUNNY RUBY ANN TRAILER PARK COOKBOOK. THE STORIES SHE TELLS AND THE SITUATIONS THAT HAPPEN AT HOME IN THE TRAILER PARK WILL HAVE YOU LAUGHING OUTLOUD. THE RECIPES ARE AN ADDED BONUS AND I MUST ADMIT, I HAVE TRIED A FEW AND THEY ARE GOOD!!! ALL THE BOOKS BY RUBY ANN ARE A GREAT READ AND A FUNNY ONE TO SHARE WITH THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

Great gift for the cookbook collector 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I collect cookbooks, and especially love a good rural or provencial cookbook. This was given to me as a gag gift years ago, and I just love it. It's screamingly funny, and though some of the dishes are deliberately awful (I think?) and may contain a bit too much Cheez Whiz and marshmallow fluff for some tastes, who couldn't love a cookbook with a recipe for 'Slut Puppies'? Give it a as a gift for your favorite foodie, and buy a copy for yourself; you won't be sorry.

This book is disappointing! 1 out of 5 stars.
0 of 3 people found this review helpful.

The trailer trash thing is overdone. I was turned off by the on and on ramblings and making fun of trailer park residents. I can listen to jokes of any kind but I found this very distasteful. This is 2007 not 1950. I collect cookbooks and thought this might have some fresh ideas and purchased it based on the good reviews. Everyone can choose their own style of humor, I just happen to see this book as turning into a white elephant or into the recycle bin. I felt the recipes were unremarkable and shallow, just as the author's commentary. There are so many great cookbooks at Amazon,I would look a little farther next time.

Best of the Best from Louisiana 2: Selected Recipes from Louisiana's Favorite Cookbooks (Best of the Best from Louisiana II)

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Excellent! 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

I've had this cookbook for 2 years now and have tried many of its recipies...They are SO GOOD! This cookbook gives a wonderful variety from many southern references of traditional and some contemporary creations. This is the most used cookbook I own. Really great!!

Editorial Review:

From Monroe to Morgan City, Natchitoces to New Orleans, Lake Charles to Lake Pontchartrain, fifty of the leading cookbooks from Louisiana have contributed their favorite recipes to create this remarkable collection.

Louisiana is a special place for a lot of reasons, one of which is the tradition of preparing and serving delicious food. Best of the Best from Louisiana has gathered together a selection of recipes that captures this truly unique culinary heritage. Regional favorites such as Crawfish Etouffee, Cajun Red Beans and Rice, King Cake, Hurricane Punch, and Creamy Smooth Pecan Pralines are just a sampling of the over 400 or so recipes included in these pages.

Best of the Best from Louisiana was the first volume in Quail Ridge Press' acclaimed Best of the Best State Cookbook Series, and remains one of the most popular titles.

The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Cookbook: Recipes and Reflections from FORREST GUMP

Southern Living

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Editorial Review:

Forrest Gump stepped out of the pages of Winston Groom’s novel, up onto the silver screen, and into the hearts of more than 30 million Americans. If you’re lucky, you count yourself among them.

Now you can open to any page... and just like Forrest’s mama said about life... “You never know what you’re gonna get.” There are shrimp kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, shrimp cocktail... over 75 recipes all told, and every mouth-watering one of them heaven-sent.

And speaking of heaven, Forrest wanted to remember his mama with these recipes, and his best friend, Bubba, too. And he didn’t want Li’l Forrest to grow up without knowing the Gump family shrimp secrets. These recipes are so downright delicious, you’ll know that “miracles do happen every day.”

Forrest Gump has never been a man to complicate things... he’s a simple man, but one who “knows what love is.” Try some of the shrimp recipes in this book, and you’ll know what he means.

Forrest’s mama loved the South, and its magazine, Southern Living®. “They just have a way with food,” she used to say. Try these shrimp fixings, all tested in the Southern Living kitchens, and you’ll say his mama was right every time. Even if the President of the United States knocks on your door, you’ll have the very thing to put on his plate. Tell him Forrest Gump said to say hello... and to remember his own mama.

Nathalie Dupree's Shrimp and Grits

Nathalie Dupree

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Real South Carolina low country cooking 5 out of 5 stars.
12 of 12 people found this review helpful.

This is a terrific guide to real southern good food, centering around grits and, of course, shrimp. The truth is that grits are very closely related to polenta, and they can be great. This book is a terrific guide to good grits & good shrimp as they are eaten in the South. I am a California inhabitent myself, but this food is good. The receipes also are not too complicated and good for family or guests.

Great cooking recipes 5 out of 5 stars.
11 of 13 people found this review helpful.

Another fabulous cookbook by my favorite southern cooking author. I've already tried a recipe and it was a huge hit with my family. PS -- They don't particulary like grits.

Ya Don't have to be from the South..... 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.

You don't have to be from the South to LOVE Nathalie Dupree's Shrimp and Grits.
And who would have thought that an entire cook book on these lowly, but Heavenly ingredients could be so varied, so intriguing and so straight forward.
Every kitchen should have this cook book on the shelf.
Tomie dePaola (from New Hampshire)

Editorial Review:

"Breakfast shrimp and grits" has long been a staple of the South Carolina Lowcountry, the favored morning repast during the busy summer shrimp season. Now, renowned Southern cuisine maven and author Nathalie Dupree is pleased to offer an entire cookbook dedicated to this famed Southern dish that will inspire people around the world to discover its appeal and versatility for any meal!

The Texas Cowboy Cookbook: A History in Recipes and Photos

Robb Walsh

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Editorial Review:

Texas cowboys are the stuff of legend — immortalized in ruggedly picturesque images from Madison Avenue to Hollywood. Cowboy cooking has the same romanticized mythology, with the same oversimplified reputation (think campfire coffee, cowboy steaks, and ranch dressing). In reality, the food of the Texas cattle raisers came from a wide variety of ethnicities and spans four centuries.

Robb Walsh digs deep into the culinary culture of the Texas cowpunchers, beginning with the Mexican vaqueros and their chile-based cuisine. Walsh gives overdue credit to the largely unsung black cowboys (one in four cowboys was black, and many of those were cooks). Cowgirls also played a role, and there is even a chapter on Urban Cowboys and an interview with the owner of Gilley’s, setting for the John Travolta--Debra Winger film.

Here are a mouthwatering variety of recipes that include campfire and chuckwagon favorites as well as the sophisticated creations of the New Cowboy Cuisine:

• Meats and poultry: sirloin guisada, cinnamon chicken, coffee-rubbed tenderloin
• Stews and one-pot meals: chili, gumbo, fideo con carne
• Sides: scalloped potatoes, onion rings, pole beans, field peas
• Desserts and breads: peach cobbler, sourdough biscuits, old-fashioned preserves

Through over a hundred evocative photos and a hundred recipes, historical sources, and the words of the cowboys (and cowgirls) themselves, the food lore of the Lone Star cowboy is brought vividly to life.