The Complete Southern Cookbook: More than 800 of the Most Delicious, Down-Home Recipes - Hardcover

Algood, Tammy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0762438649 ISBN 13: 9780762438648

Publisher: Running Press, 2010

Synopsis

Cooking has always followed the seasons in the South. This has led to so many longstanding food traditions: strawberry jam in spring, apple cobbler in fall, fried green tomatoes in summer, pickled beets in winter, and the list goes on. With more than 800 delicious Southern recipes for over 85 different ingredients, there are plenty of options when your garden is plentiful and your freezer is stocked. From Almonds to Zucchini, these delightful recipes are organized by ingredient to highlight the seasonality of the recipes. Tammy Algood has been cooking Southern food all her life. Along with this complete collection of her favorite down-home recipes, she has also included some contemporary dishes as well: Lemon Butter Asparagus, Merlot Brownies, Pralines and Cream Cheesecake, Southern Chicken Cordon Bleu, and Mixed Mushroom Tart. Here is a sample of the wonderful Southern recipes available Almond BrittleDried and Fried Apple PiesSouthern Apple FrittersBacon Cheese DipHot Bacon DressingNew Orleans Bananas FosterCarolina Baby Back RibsTennessee’s Best ButtTexas Thunder Barbecue SauceAppalachian Baked BeansSeaside Black Beans and RiceIndian Summer Beet SaladCountry Ham and Cheese BiscuitsDaisy BiscuitsHot Cheese Drop BiscuitsRefrigerator BiscuitsOld South Cabbage RollsPan-Fried ColeslawSweet Kissed CarrotsTime-Honored Cheese StrawsFresh Cherry CobblerState Fair Caramel CornPecan “Fried” ChickenSpicy Fried ChickenLady’s Lunch Old-Fashioned Chicken SaladCornbread WafflesCrispy Southern HushpuppiesSausage Cornbread DressingAndouille Grilled GritsSouthern Hospitality Cheese GritsFabulous Fried OkraOyster Po’BoysSouthern-Fried PiesSouthern Tradition Pecan PieFirecracker Sausage BallsButtermilk Spoon BreadBourbon-Basted Sweet Potatoes“A Sip of Tradition” Sweet TeaTea JulepsFried Buttermilk Green TomatoesHot Tomato GritsFried Zucchini MatchsticksAnd so much more . . .

About this title

About the Author:

Tammy Algood is an author, editor, and spokesperson. She has appeared on television in local, state, and national markets promoting Tennessee grown food products. She conducts cooking schools at various Tennessee wineries and has been published in numerous magazines and newspapers. She lives in Middle Tennessee.

Review:

DailyCady.com, 11/18/10
“...old-timey, no-nonsense primer for taking your kitchen below the Mason-Dixon. It’s got everything you could hope for...” 

The Times-Picayune, October 14, 2010
“Any book with a chapter on gravy wins my heart. The author, based in Nashville, Tenn., delivers the goods from almonds to zucchini in an unusual food-by-food chapter format.”

Dallas Morning News, 11/5/10
This cookbook, which you'll know at a glance is Southern, categorizes more than 800 recipes mainly by ingredient. Where else would you also find entire chapters devoted to Coca-Cola, crawfish, grits and macaroni and cheese, as well as apples, corn and zucchini? Gravy gets its own chapter, too, with recipes for red-eye, sausage and tasso ham varieties. Author Tammy Algood mingles classic and new, sometimes with folksy, descriptive names, such as Dressed-for-Sunday Black-eyed Peas and Easy-Street Oven-Fried Okra. Navigating the recipes by ingredient is different, but gems like Andouille Grilled Grits and Sweet Potato Spoon Bread make the adjustment worthwhile.

Boston Herald’s Fork Lift food blog, 10/27/10
“... 800 recipes that will have you whistling Dixie.”

Nashville Scene,10/28/10
She brings a no-nonsense instructional voice to the ambitious inch-and-a-half-thick tome — which is conveniently organized around 85 ingredients — and plates it with an endearing side of nostalgia for her grandmother's kitchen. With multiple dishes per page, Algood's short recipes are practical and manageable... In an era of chef-personalities who fill their cookbooks with glamour shots of themselves holding even more glamorous dishes, Algood relies on the character of the recipes. Hers is not a coffee-table book; it's a kitchen-counter book.

Tampa Bay.com 11/10/10
“When Tammy Algood talks of Southern food, she speaks of abundance. ... Her 800-recipe book, The Complete Southern Cookbook, celebrates that bounty with traditional and tweaked favorites of her beloved South.”

About this edition

• Publisher: Running Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0762438649
• ISBN 13: 9780762438648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 496