For the Love of Cooking : Our Best Recipes : Volume Two - Southern Living

415 p., clean and unmarked except for faint smudges on the table of contents and a couple of pages in the index; photos and ill.; bindign firm; unfaded pictorial boards are lightly bumped and rubbed.This is much harder to find than the Volume One, and has really authentic recipes. For example, the recipe for gumbo tells you exactly how to make a roux, and gives a realistic time frame--it really does take "from 30 to 40 minutes." No lie. Outstanding are all the refreshing summer soups for really hot weather: cucumber soup, vichyssoise, gazpacho, two cold avocado soups, an artichoke soup, three gazpachos, one with shrimp, vichyssoise, and a summer borscht. If you're a grits fanatic there are three grits casserole recipes, one with cheese, a grits souffle, queneelle de grits, grits-beef stew, and veal grillades and grits.