Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook

I buy, and recieve, hundreds of cookbooks each year. This might be the best cookbook I purchased this year. My publisher says that if someone cooks six recipes out of a cookbook, it is a major success. The first time I thumbed through Foose's book, there were several dozen recipes I wanted to prepare.

Foose got her start at the La Brea Bakery in Los Angeles, and moved on to several bakeries in Mississippi. However, where Foose shines in this, her first publishing effort, is on the savory courses that take place well before dessert-- Inside Out Sweet Potatoes, Lady Pea Salad, and Chicken Thighs and Dumplings to list just a few.

From the banana pudding she cooked for Oprah (in individual Mason jars) to Catfish in a Paper Sack, the book is filled with recipes new, true, and Southern

This is a wonderful cookbook. The recipes are easy to make, and the book is very beautiful. Great pictures and stories. I read the whole thing from cover to cover without putting it down! Loved it!

Excellent content and very attractivly packaged. Great gift for wives, mothers, grandmothers and new brides.

Apricot Rice Salad, Watermelon Salsa, new fashion Cabbage Rolls plus a few concotions with burbon that you haven't thought of yet, its all in here. The author treats the reader with a small story about how the recipie came about, that reads like a book. All in all, the cookbook is delightful and the recipies will be your new old favorites. I have family on the west coast that I'm buying another copy to give to them, the recipies are delicious and so are the stories of how they got concocted. The author trained in france but this is her honest to goodness southern recipies, with a twist that makes them new again. Delightful.

I paid full price for this book, not usual for me. I just did not like this book. I didn't like the recipts, nor did I like the stories.
It was just not my cup of tea. (excuse the pun)
And, what is a pompano? yes, I get it is a fish but I don't recall being able to purchase it in the shoprite.
I just didn't like the book I guess. ( PS, I was raised in the south).