The Gift of Southern Cooking: Recipes and Revelations From Two Great Southern Cooks.by Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock Knopf, April 2003 $29.95, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-375-40035-4 Edna Lewis, a Virginia native famous for her classic cookbooks The Taste of Country Cooking (Random House, June 1976, ISBN 0-394-73215-4) and In Pursuit of Flavor (University, Press of Virginia, March 2000, ISBN 0-813-91989-4) has had a long and tabled career as a chef in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and throughout the South. Her Alabama-born coauthor, Scott Peacock, distinguished himself as chef to two Georgia governors and at Watershed restaurant in Decatur, Georgia. Together, they founded the Society for the Revival and Preservation of Southern Pond, and have spent years researching and learning cuisines indigenous to several Southern states. The fruits of their labor are evident in the recipes that fill Gift of Southern Cooking. Plenty of classic dishes, such as macaroni and cheese, cornmeal corn·meal also corn meal n. Meal made from corn, used in a wide variety of foods. Also called Indian meal. Noun 1. muffins, Southern pan-fried chicken and banana pudding are included. The best feature of this collection is the wide variety of recipes that come as a revelation to those not raised in the South, ranging from Candied can·died adj. Permeated, covered, encrusted, or cooked with sugar: candied sweet potatoes. candied Adjective coated with or cooked in sugar: Bacon (served with breakfast or brunch) to Chowchow, a relish typically eaten with cabbage that you'd be hard-pressed to find served north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Lewis and Peacock have taken liberties with a few recipes--their version of Frogmore Stew, for example, is a bit more sophisticated than the conventional preparation practiced in the South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. Low Country. Though the stew is excellent, the highlight of the book is Lewis's renowned Turtle Soup With Dumplings. Throughout the hook are helpful hints for locating hard-to-find ingredients (for example, the tartaric acid tartaric acid, HO2CCHOHCHOHCO2H, white crystalline dicarboxylic acid. It occurs as three distinct isomers, the dextro-, levo-, and meso- forms. used to make mulberry acid, a syrup mixed into ice water or alcoholic beverages, is sold in health food stores or pharmacies), as well as charming anecdotes that impart tips and tricks essential to perfecting the tastes and textures of Southern cuisine. If you weren't fortunate enough to learn the secrets of Southern cuisine in your grandmother's kitchen, The Gift of Souther Cooking could make the difference between serving up an imitation dish or an authentic recipe full of real, traditional flavor. --Melissa Ewey Johnson is a writer and editor living in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . |
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