Marion Brown's Southern Cook Book Review

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(More customer reviews)I glanced through a copy of this 2001 newest edition, and felt the book lacked the "heart" of my old 1951 paperback edition of The Southern Cook Book by Marion Brown. I went home, flipped through the yellowed pages of my friendly old paperback, and fell in love with it again!
The 1951 version is one of THE classic books of Southern Cooking, and at 57 years old, is still alive with Marion's voice and the spirit of her quest to gather up many old recipes before they were lost.
There is a place for the new edition, with recipes using items not cooked from scratch, and it records how "fast"er foods are used by some cooks today for a newer taste. I can buy a Rachael Ray book, or google recipes by cooks not even born in 1950, 1960, or 1970 and learn some of these trendier New Southern recipes with ingredients such as ginger, foie gras, shaved truffles, all nicely stacked up. Thanks, but I'll pass on most of these dishes, just the same.
If you are serious about Southern Cooking, get the 1951 copyrighted version of The Southern Cook Book, Edna Lewis's 3 books, and try some of the newer Southern cooking styles as well, with Ronni Lundy, Camille Glenn, Frank Stitt's Southern Table, John Martin's books, many fine New Orleans cookbooks, and experience all that is "Southern Cooking", from cooks and writers from Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and up through Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.
Better yet, taste today's cooking as a yardstick of comparison at the vanishing "Mom and Pop" tiny restaurants (for "meat and three"'s) and sample regional variations (Vinegar, tomato, mustard bases etc) at numerous BBQ throughout the South.
Try Charleston's Justines and the shrimp and grits at Middleton Plantation, sample the more upscale restaurants as well, such as Charleston Grille and McCready's in Charleston. Try BBQ at Sgt. White's Diner , and surprisingly tasty food at Gilligan's, both in Beaufort, SC. You MUST go to Mrs. Wilkes Boarding House in Savannah to try 35 different try Southern dishes at one setting, and pass on by the less authentic steam table foods at Lady and Sons, despite lovely Paula's humor and accent!
DO visit the Beautiful monuments and stunning trees of Bonaventure cemetery just outside Savannah, and toast all those who cooked, laughed and loved before us.

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A classic that has been in existence for fifty years, and recently updated, with over 1,000 recipes from famous Southern households, hotels, plantations, and restaurants, including everything from hors d'oeuvres, salads, breads and biscuits, to famous Southern desserts, and special food gifts.

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