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Title: Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie by Bill Neal ISBN: 0-8078-5474-3 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 26 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Real Keeper
Comment: I have a several thousand cookbook collection - spanning some 40+ years. I have read each one and KNOW them. This book grabs your attention and holds it. I have a Top 100 Cookbooks (my very, very favorite ones) bookcase. A book has to pass rigid cooking/baking tests to get there. This book is there!!
Note: I have had FUN doing this all these years.
The recipe for "A Good White Bread" is about as tasty as white bread can ever be. (Hint: Make 1 BIG loaf with it) The "Pain de Babeurre" rolls are probably the best we have ever had. They raise big, fat, and are very soft inside. Where do I stop?
Get the book - trust me, you won't be sorry!
Rating: 5
Summary: Baking, Sweet and Southern
Comment: Bill Neal was one of the first cookbook authors I am aware of to incorporate culinary history, as well as cultural lore and perfectly chosen old photos into his "how-we-cook-it-in-the-South book." Thus, in BISCUITS, et al. he offers a compendium of history and culture truly representative of the Southern U. S., not merely a cliched pastiche of collarded, chitterlinged, cornbreaded and mint-juleped facts and details to pad out the receipes. Native American is distinguished from Colonial cookery, African-American from Appalachian, and Creole from Charleston as the author takes pains to convey, for example, why cooks in different regions of the South tossed different ingredients in with the cornmeal to produce their distinctive cornbreads--then he reproduces each of the recipes! At the same time Neal weaves the various influences together where appropriate; for example, from the introduction to Sweet Potato Yeast Bread: "This Mississippi bread has just about everything going for it . . . delicious and nutritious. . . Similar recipes are published in local cookbooks throughout the Southern coastal regions, wherever blacks live in large numbers. The bread is most likely of African and West Indian heritage [which use other] starchy tubers such as cassava, tanyah (elephant's ear), yams, and arrowroot." Reading this book is a pleasure unto itself, and all the recipes I have tried are outstanding. Specifically, the Appalachian Corn Bread cooked up as small fritters on a cast-iron griddle was food for the gods! (Hint: I snuck in one secret ingredient.) Bill Neal, if you read this review, e-mail me at [email protected] so that I can tell you the secret ingredient (and ask you to marry me). P.S. Also, have you published other books since '95? Next on my list to read: Through the Garden Gate and Gardeners Latin. Signed, Mirabila X.(Oh, don't forget to give me the password, being my last name, so I'll know it is really you!)
Rating: 5
Summary: The BEST cook book I have ever had the pleasure of reading!
Comment: If you are a fan of quality cook books, for their reading pleasure as well as their content, this is THE book for you! Without a doubt the BEST cook book I have ever, ever, ever had the pleasure of delving into!
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Title: Bill Neal's Southern Cooking by Bill Neal ISBN: 0807842559 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Good Old Grits Cookbook by Bill Neal, David Perry, Emily Polishook ISBN: 0894808656 Publisher: Workman Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Gift of Southern Cooking: Recipes and Revelations from Two Great American Cooks by Edna Lewis, Scott Peacock, David Nussbaum ISBN: 0375400354 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: True Grits: The Southern Foods Mail-Order Catalog by Joni Miller ISBN: 0894803441 Publisher: Workman Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Heritage of Southern Cooking: An Inspired Tour or Southern Cuisine Including Regional Specialites, Heirloom Favorites, and Original Dishes by Camille Glenn ISBN: 1579122639 Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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