Andrea's Cooktales: A Keepsake Cookbook. Learn New Recipes, Treasure Old Ones Format: Hardcover

Andrea's Cooktales: A Keepsake Cookbook. Learn New Recipes, Treasure Old Ones is the debut book of one of America’s top 100 home cooks. This heirloom cookbook is meant to be savored, splattered, and shared. It features "New-Generation" Southern recipes that are unique, fun, and easy to follow. Special stories are behind every recipe, which will inspire your own memories and stories. Learn new recipes to add to your weekday as well as holiday meal rotations. From appetizers to dessert, recipes are both naughty (for splurging) and nice (for healthy eating). A notes section is included for cooking/food questions and answers, as well as journal areas to jot down stories and enter family recipes.

The perfect gift book, it features a scuff-resistant hardcover, Smythe-sewn binding and a ribbon bookmark that will ensure it will be passed along for years. With delicious photography by Memphian Nicole Cole and a foreword by Memphis restaurateur and chef Jennifer Chandler.

Andrea LeTard is a Mississippi-raised, self-taught chef who calls Memphis home. Her recipes are what she likes to call "next-generation southern." They're upscale yet fun using fine, fresh, and sometimes unique ingredients, always with southern flair and a story or memory that inspired them. She is a true believer that the fondest memories are made in the kitchen, at the dinner table, and surrounded by food. Cooking is her passion, but, she says "it’s not always about the food. It’s about the company that surrounds me when food is present – the laughs shared over a good glass of wine and a nice meal, the memories made with every pot stirred and bite taken, and generations of passed down recipes and cooking tips."