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(More customer reviews)A cookbook is one thing, but a cookbook with stories is another, and I love one that gets it right. This one definitely gets it right, and I'm going to buy myself, my mama, and probably various other people a copy.
The pictures are outstanding - I almost licked the screen when I got to the chocolate gravy. The recipes are simple and straight-forward. How could you go wrong with recipes titled "Pimento Cheese a la Nanny" and "Memama's Chocolate Sheet Cake"? Since they come from southern grandmothers, there's probably nothing here that the reader hasn't tasted or at least heard of, and the recipes don't call for any fancy, hard to get ingredients.
The heart of the book, however, are the stories that precede each recipe. Natives from across the South share warm recollections of their grandmothers' kitchens. I chuckled at the quote, "You'd have to keep saying, 'Ma-Maw, that's enough. Come sit down.'", because how many times have we had to tell my own grandmother that??? This is a wonderful book that should find its way onto many southern shelves, whether the readers are cooks or not.
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