Southern Byways

My Cookbook Pick for Today… and why

by SP on June 5th, 2007

And you thought that you had to be from the south to cook like a Southerner… apparently not. The fact that these two gentlemen were from the north didn’t stop them. I was just looking at some of their recipes. I have no idea what pickled peaches taste like or blackened potato salad. I really need to get out more obviously!!

“The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook tells the story of the brothers’ culinary coming-of-age in Charleston–how they triumphed over their northern roots and learned to cook southern without a southern grandmother. Here are recipes for classics like Fried Chicken, Crab Cakes, and Pecan Pie, as well as little-known preparations such as St. Cecilia Punch, Pickled Peaches, and Shrimp Burgers. Others bear the hallmark of the brothers’ resourceful cooking style—simple, sophisticated dishes like Blackened Potato Salad, Saigon Hoppin’ John, and Buttermilk-Sweet Potato Pie that usher southern cooking into the twenty-first century without losing sight of its roots. With helpful sourcing and substitution tips, this is a practical and personal guide that will have readers cooking southern tonight, wherever they live.”

The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook: Stories and Recipes for Southerners and Would-be Southerners

Any “Would-be” Southerners out there??

Share This

Related Stories

Eating Like the LocalsSweet Dreams and Gorgeous HairGingerbread

POSTED IN: Recipes, Southern Byways