'A sweeping love letter to the region that shaped America's palate.' - Eric Adjepong A home
cook's guide to one of America's most diverse - and delicious - cuisines from James Beard
Award-winning author and culinary historian Michael W. Twitty 'Our cuisine with its grits and
black-eyed peas crab cakes red rice and endless variations on the staple foods of the region
casts a spell that if you're lucky gets passed down with snapping string beans at the table
and chewing cane on the back porch.' - Michael W. Twitty In the introduction to this
groundbreaking recipe collection acclaimed historian Michael W. Twitty declares 'No one state
or area can give you the breadth of the Southern story or fully set the Southern table.' To
answer this Recipes from the American South journeys from the Louisiana Bayou to the
Chesapeake Bay showcasing more than 260 of the region's most beloved dishes. Across more than
400 pages Twitty explores the broad culinary sweep that Southern history and its many cultures
represent. Recipes for breads and biscuits mains and sides stews sauces and sweets feature
insightful headnotes and clear step-by-step instructions. Home cooks will discover both iconic
dishes and lesser-known specialties: Chicken and Dumplings She-crab Soup Red Eye Gravy Benne
Seed Wafers Hummingbird Cake and Mint Juleps appear alongside Shrimp Pilau Chorizo Dirty
Rice Sumac Lemonade and Cajun Pig's Ears Pastry. A masterful storyteller Twitty enriches his
extensive recipe collection with lyrical deeply researched essays that celebrate the region's
"multicultural gumbo" of influences from immigrants from across the globe. Vibrant food
photography adds further color to the fascinating narrative. Expansive authoritative and
beautifully designed Recipes from the American South is a classic cookbook in the making.
