The Southern Living Community Cookbook

Southern food and food stories are bound together. This book will reflect people, regardless of where they come form, who claim Southern food as their own, whether for a lifetime or a mealtime. People feel deep affection for their local community cookbooks, especially those well-worn volumes that serve as a timestamp of a particular place and time. No other type of recipe collection is more generous, gracious, and welcoming. Before we give you a bite, we Southern cooks have to tell you about what we've made. Southern food is evocative, so our food and food stories are bound together in our communities. A memorable Southern cookbook holds good food and a good read, the equivalent of a brimming recipe box plus the scribbled notes and whispered secrets that cover the tips, advice, and stories that a generous cook shares with family members, friends, and neighbors. These recipes bring all sorts of cooks, recipes, and stories to a common table to bring readers a cookbook filled with good things to eat that have something to say.

Sure to become a must-have addition to the kitchen bookshelves of Southern Living cooking aficionados nationwide, the Southern Living Homestyle Cookbook combines fresh new comfort foods with the traditional, old-fashioned recipes we`ve come to know and expect from Southern Living. Four hundred hand-picked recipes are included, all kitchen tested and tried-and-true favorites of home cooks from Southern Living magazine readers, plus the best dishes from over 4,000 community cookbooks. The Southern Living Homestyle Cookbook highlights favorite down-home and delicious recipes from across the South, with a special section describing distinctly Southern flavors, such as Chesapeake Bay, the Low Country, Cajun and Creole, and the Heart of Dixie. Features: More than 400 recipes selected for their high rating by Southern Living Test Kitchens ProfessionalsMore than 100 all-new photographs show traditional family-favorite recipes in up-to-date presentations, with a savory mix of contemporary and traditional serving ideas and garnishesFor over 40 years, Southern Living magazine has delivered definitive Southern cuisine to its readers making it one of the most trusted recipe resources in the country, reaching over 16 million readers monthly.

This new essential guide to entertaining is divided by occasion, offering a fresh lineup of menus and ideas from Oxford, Mississippi's go-to caterer for every celebratory scenario life serves up. In this update to the best-selling book of our mothers' and grandmothers' era, Elizabeth's tell-it-like-it-is voice provides a twist to the classic Southern advice that is a refresher for entertainers of any age or experience. Packed with delicious recipes from the original book like Smoked Salmon Canapes, Hot Cheese Squares, and Brandy Alexanders, the book also includes popular picks from the current pages of Southern Living as well as Elizabeth's treasured recipe box. The Southern Living Party Cookbook is an entertaining handbook loaded with lifestyle tips and hilarious Heiskell stories, along with lush photography to help you get the look from table setting to plated dish.

More than a recipe book, "The Southern Living Cookbook" is a complete guide to cooking, with more than 1,300 recipes, 400 photos, and extensive information about cooking.

Sure to become a must-have addition to the kitchen bookshelves of Southern Living cooking aficionados nationwide, the Southern Living Homestyle Cookbook combines fresh new comfort foods with the traditional, old-fashioned recipes we've come to know and expect from Southern Living. Four hundred hand-picked recipes are included, all kitchen tested and tried-and-true favorites of home cooks from Southern Living magazine readers, plus the best dishes from over 4,000 community cookbooks. The Southern Living Homestyle Cookbook highlights favorite down-home and delicious recipes from across the South, with a special section describing distinctly Southern flavors, such as Chesapeake Bay, the Low Country, Cajun and Creole, and the Heart of Dixie. Features: More than 400 recipes selected for their high rating by Southern Living Test Kitchens Professionals More than 100 all-new photographs show traditional family-favorite recipes in up-to-date presentations, with a savory mix of contemporary and traditional serving ideas and garnishes For over 40 years, Southern Living magazine has delivered definitive Southern cuisine to its readers making it one of the most trusted recipe resources in the country, reaching over 16 million readers monthly

"Over 400 mouthwatering, made-with-love recipes. Enjoy memories of the meals you grew up with"--Cover.

Edna Lewis is renowned as one of the greatest American chefs and as an African-American woman who almost single handedly revived a forgotten world of refined Southern cooking. Lewis won many industry awards and was often referred to as "the Grande Dame of Southern Cooking" and the "South's answer to Julia Child."