Henry Carter Hull

In the South, a conversation among home cooks can be just about as illuminating as any culinary education. Luckily for Stacey Little, home cooks run in the family. Whether it's fried chicken or pimento cheese, fruit salad or meatloaf, everybody's family does it a little differently. The Southern Bite is a celebration of those traditions and recipes every Southern family is proud to own. It's the Pecan Chicken Salad that's mandatory for every family...

Kitty Dolan recalls a visit with Elvis in Killeen, Texas, right after his mother's death. "We drove in Elvis's white Cadillac to the house they had rented from Judge Crawford. . . .That night we sat down to dinner, with Elvis at one end of the table and his father at the other. Then his grandmother. There was a big platter of white bread for sandwich makings and a big platter of southern baked beans. Theat was topped off with a delicious pie his Grandmammy...

Using checklists and smart strategies, Jennifer Chandler helps readers unearth dozens of Southern meals waiting to be discovered in their well-stocked pantries. Nothing can discourage a home cook quite like being unprepared -- running to the store for that one item, getting halfway through a recipe and realizing something is missing, or simply not knowing quite where to begin. Kitchen pro and popular cookbook author Jennifer Chandler returns with...

"With a fresh take on Southern-style cooking and rooted firmly in the notion that great Southern food doesn't have to be heavy or unhealthy, this book for the modern home cook has more than 100 recipes for simple Southern food, reimagined and made with less.This is a hassle-free, lighter take on Southern cooking that proves the notion less can so often be more. By reimagining beloved Southern classics and viewing them through a more health- and lifestyle-conscious...

""With this fun book, your stomach and imagination take a road trip through some classic and iconic Kentucky foods" with the authors of The State of Bourbon (Maggie Green, author of The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook ). There's nothing worse than pulling off the road for a tasty bite and being confronted with an unappetizing meal instead. Veteran road trippers and Kentucky natives Cameron Ludwick and Blair Thomas Hess are on a mission to help you ditch...

"Meat pies, po'babies and other Southern nibbles will 'delightfully extend' cocktail hour... You could party all year with this little book." -- The Dallas Morning News Southerners adore their appetizers, and this collection of sixty recipes -- served up with a healthy dose of Southern hospitality -- shows why. Smoked pecans on the sideboard, cheese straws on the coffee table, an array of hot dips on the dining table, and pickled shrimp on the porch...

The Loving Kitchen is a collection of comforting recipes straight from the kitchen of popular food blogger LeAnn Rice. You know the feeling you get when you're an overnight guest in someone's home, and you awaken to a hot-off-the-griddle breakfast? Or when a coworker brings in a pan of her famous brownies to celebrate your recent promotion? Doesn't it feel great when dinner at the neighbors' house includes multiple courses of scratch-made recipes...

The author of Smokin' in the Boys' Room shares more than eighty-five Southern-influenced recipes enhanced with the cultural flavors of Mexico, France, and Asia. Melissa Cookston, the "winningest woman in barbecue," judge on the Netflix hit, American Barbecue Showdown, and the only female, seven-time barbecue world champion is bringing the heat with her second cookbook. With the grill and smoker as her go-to tools, chef Melissa Cookston-named...

"Savor the flavorful culinary history of Florida"-- "This is a state-wide history of Florida's food and cooking as it evolved over several centuries and through today"-- Florida cuisine: twelve thousand years in the making, discover the the state's unusual and distinctive food influences and dishes. From the very first prickly pears harvested by Paleo-Indians more than twelve thousand years ago to the Seminole tribe's staple dish of sofkee, Florida's...

"A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and forty comforting recipes from the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother's presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen; There were an abundance of ancestors stirring, measuring, and braising with her. These...