True Grits: The Southern Foods Mail-Order Catalog - Softcover

Miller, Joni

9780894803444: True Grits: The Southern Foods Mail-Order Catalog

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0894803441 ISBN 13: 9780894803444

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, 1990

Inspired by its Southern author's frustrating search for her favorite grits from her Northern home, True Grits is a Southern grocery store between two covers. This guide-a necessity for anyone with Southern roots or a fondness for Southern food-provides ordering information for more than 150 essential Southern ingredients and handmade specialty foods now available beyond the Mason-Dixon line. Now it's easy to stock our pantries with White Lily Flour, cans of Ro*Tel tomatoes, pickled okra, Goo Goo Clusters, ten different barbecue sauces, sweets from Kern's Kitchen Derby Pie to Warrenton Plum Pudding-and, of course, grits.

True Grits is also a fascinating journey into Southern culture, with food festivals, folklore, unusual recipes, nostalgia, and side-bars-the Dr. Pepper Story, how to handle a country ham, and more. Finally the larder of the South is open to kitchens across the country. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

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From the Back Cover:

A PIGGLY WIGGLY IN YOUR MAILBOX

From Virginia hams to Cajun yams, Goo Goo Clusters to Kern's Kitchen Derbyr Pie, TRUE GRITS offers the best of the South, with instructions on ordering well over 150 delicacies and necessities even Southerners didn't know were available through the mail. The food sources listed range from large companies with catalogs and 800 numbers to one-family operations run out of a mill, farm, or home. Includes 30 recipes.

"A crazy old rice farmer in South Louisiana."

--Ellis Sansel on Ellis Stansel

Even if Ellis Stansel were selling quart jars of mud, you'd get a kick out of doing business with him. Luckily this septuagenarian second-generation rice farmer happens to grow and sell and absolutely superb-tasting special rice that ought to be a staple in every household. It's a long-grain, hybrid strain with the smell and flavor of popping corn. There is no catalog or price list because Ellis wants you to give him a call so he can get to know you, and his order-filling is the epitome of personal service. -from TRUE GRITS

About the Author:

Joni Miller is the author of The Collectible Teapot & Tea Calendar and is a regular contributor to Omni, Connoisseur, Ms., and 7-Days. A proud "conch" (native-born Key Wester) who grew up all over the South, she now lives in Greenwich Village.

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