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Meet the Neelys: Pat and Gina, husband-and-wife team, hosts of their own television show, and proprietors of the celebrated Memphis and Nashville eateries, Neely’s Bar-B-Que.

The Neelys’ down-home approach to cooking has earned them the highest accolades from coast to coast. It has also won them millions of viewers on the Food Network. Simply put, the Neelys are all about good food and good times. In this, their eagerly awaited debut cookbook, the Neelys share the delicious food they have been cooking up for years both at home and in their restaurants.

Pat and Gina hail from families with a boundless love of cooking and bedrock traditions of sharing meals. At the Neelys’, mealtime is family time, and that means no stinting on “the sauce.” Indeed, that’s one of the Neely secrets: the liberal application of barbeque sauce to almost anything—spaghetti, nachos, salad, you name it. Of course, there are other secrets as well, and you will find them all in the pages of Down Home with the Neelys, along with more than 120 mouthwatering recipes.

Here are the tried-and-true southern recipes that have been passed down from one Neely generation to the next, including many of their signature dishes, such as Barbeque Deviled Eggs, Florida Coast Pickled Shrimp, Pat’s Wings of Fire, Gina’s Collard Greens, Grandma Jean’s Potato Salad, Nana’s Southern Gumbo, Memphis-sized Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Slaw, Get Yo’ Man Chicken, and Sock-It-to-Me Cake. Certainly, no self-respecting southerner would dream of offering a meal to a guest without a proper drink, so Pat and Gina have included some of their favorite libations here, too.

The Neelys work, laugh, love, and play harder than any family you’ll ever meet. Their love for good food is infectious, and in Down Home with the Neelys, they bring their heavenly inspired cooking down to earth for all to share.


From the Hardcover edition.Amazon.com Review
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Meet the Neelys: Pat and Gina, husband-and-wife team, hosts of their own television show, and proprietors of the celebrated Memphis and Nashville eateries, Neely’s Bar-B-Que.

The Neelys’ down-home approach to cooking has earned them the highest accolades from coast to coast. It has also won them millions of viewers on the Food Network. Simply put, the Neelys are all about good food and good times. In this, their eagerly awaited debut cookbook, the Neelys share the delicious food they have been cooking up for years both at home and in their restaurants.

Pat and Gina hail from families with a boundless love of cooking and bedrock traditions of sharing meals. At the Neelys’, mealtime is family time, and that means no stinting on “the sauce.” Indeed, that’s one of the Neely secrets: the liberal application of barbeque sauce to almost anything—spaghetti, nachos, salad, you name it. Of course, there are other secrets as well, and you will find them all in the pages of Down Home with the Neelys, along with more than 120 mouthwatering recipes.

Here are the tried-and-true southern recipes that have been passed down from one Neely generation to the next, including many of their signature dishes, such as Barbeque Deviled Eggs, Florida Coast Pickled Shrimp, Pat’s Wings of Fire, Gina’s Collard Greens, Grandma Jean’s Potato Salad, Nana’s Southern Gumbo, Memphis-sized Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Slaw, Get Yo’ Man Chicken, and Sock-It-to-Me Cake. Certainly, no self-respecting southerner would dream of offering a meal to a guest without a proper drink, so Pat and Gina have included some of their favorite libations here, too.

The Neelys work, laugh, love, and play harder than any family you’ll ever meet. Their love for good food is infectious, and in Down Home with the Neelys, they bring their heavenly inspired cooking down to earth for all to share.

From Down Home with the Neelys: Sweet and Spicy Slaw

Pat: In Memphis, if you run a barbecue joint, you better have coleslaw on your menu and it better be good (ours is some of the very best). Indeed, you could spend a day in Memphis tasting slaw from rib joints all over town. And yet there are people who visit our fair city who are hesitant to try it, especially folks from the West Coast. This is a mystery to me. Coleslaw and pulled pork go together like lettuce and tomatoes on a burger, and salted peanuts in a bottle of pop (I bet some of you haven’t tried that, either).

Bottom line: You come down Memphis way, you have to try our slaw. When we started Neely’s, Tony and I recognized the importance of slaw and knew we would have to come up with a killer recipe, one that would complement our sandwiches and our sauce. It had to be sweet yet spicy, because our barbecue sauce was truly mild. We also wanted it to be coarse and fresh (with a little onion flavor, and carrots for color). A big key for us was using two types of pepper, black and cayenne, which work together as well as Tony and I do. Then came some sugar, as sweet as my Gina. All of these ingredients have given us a coleslaw we are very proud of. For years in the restaurant this was my dish—no one made it for either location but me. I didn’t use measuring cups; everything was done by feel. As we grew, I knew I would eventually have to develop it into a standard recipe so others could make it. Now we have customers who come in and buy slaw by the bucket to take home and have with their catfish, spaghetti, or whatever they are cooking. This recipe will convert even those West Coast hard-liners who claim they “don’t eat slaw.”

Gina: On our show, we like to tease that Pat is the sweet and I am the spicy (only my man knows for sure!). At Neely’s restaurants, the famous and addictive coleslaw happens to be both. We often double this recipe for parties, because leftovers are so delicious (and a food processor makes quick work of all that shredding). When making this slaw at home, it’s a good idea to use both red and green cabbage. It’ll give your slaw more color. Be sure to select the freshest, best-looking cabbage available for the prettiest, crispest, and crunchiest coleslaw you have ever tasted.

Ingredients

• 1 small head green cabbage
• 1 small head red cabbage
• 4 carrots
• 1 medium yellow onion
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 1/4 cup prepared yellow mustard
• 2 teaspoons apple-cider vinegar
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground black
• pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• Kosher salt

(Serves 6 to 8)

Directions

Cut the cabbages into quarters and remove the cores. Peel the carrots and onion, and slice them into pieces that will fit through the feed tube of a food processor. Fit the food processor with the large-holed grater attachment, and push the cabbage, carrots, and onion through the feed tube to grate. In a large bowl, toss the grated cabbage, carrots, and onions to combine.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, mustard, vinegar, sugar, black pepper, and cayenne (whisk until the sugar is dissolved). Toss the dressing with the coleslaw, and season with salt and additional pepper to taste. Cover the slaw with plastic wrap, and chill for at least 2 hours before serving.

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Customer Reviews (37)

great cookbook!Also very family-affirming!
I really like how this cookbook combined great recipes with a lot of cute anecdotes and stories about the Neely's family and business.

Expected a little more
I watch the Neely's and enjoy many of their recipes.Unfortunately, this cookbook has more of their story than of their recipes.I was a bit disappointed.It is a pretty book if you are a collector or are just a big fan, but I didn't find it to be practical as a cookbook should be. Maybe a follow-up would be designed differently....I hope.

redd
Oh well it speake for it self,Down Home with the Neelys:A Southern Family Cookbook,I look at the show everyday,7 days straight. Get all mine cooking ideals from the show.

Down Home Cooking!
I bought this book for a girlfriend for her birthday! I should of bought 2. I really like the fact that most of the ingredients that are called for are right in your kitchen and you don't have to go to the grocery store.Excellent cookbook with easy to follow instructions, and it turns out just like the picture. Watching Food Network and both of these 2 cooking together, made me want the book!

Great Food.
Such a cool couple, as real in life as they are on TV.The food in the book is wonderful.Everyone should try it. ... Read more

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Christmas Cookbook

You can never go wrong by purchasing aSouthern Living Cookbook; this book is magnificient and the pictures and recipes are the best.Desertrose

Christmas Southern Living 2008
Very good buy. It helps a lot with ideas for Christmas decorating and special recipes. I do recommend it.

One of their very best!
I actually just used this cookbook last week, AGAIN, after using just about all the recipes included.I stumbled, literally, onto these books a few years ago and I've been collecting and USING them ever since.I've turned everyone in my family onto them too - you just cannot beat these wonderful recipes!Plus, what I probably love the most is that they make getting a nice Christmas dinner together very quickly and easily with the planned menus, what to do a few weeks, days, hours before, and what to get when you shop.It's just a very well thought out book series and I absolutely LOVE them. Great book, this one in particular is a blast to use, highly, highly recommend!

Southern Living Cook Book
The book is an excellent addition to my collection of cook books.Beautifullu illustrated with easy directions and obrainable products.

ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS TO LOOK AT!!
This book is beautifully presented with wonderful recipes, gorgeous photos and ideas for Christmas decorations. It is a treasure that will be used year after year, with different menus and decorations for each Christmas for years to come!! ... Read more

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Here is a collection of representative authentic soul food dishes for those who want the real thing. Most of the recipes were learned by the author from her grandmother, Frances Fleming Hunter, a cook whose café was in the little Mississippi town of Hollandale.

Kathy Starr compiled these recipes as a tribute to her grandmother, whom she remembers amid big pots of greens and vegetables that were bubbling on the stove as she stirred up the cornbread.

"Hunger," she says, "was something the black family had to conquer, and it was a must that simple foods make a delicious meal. My grandma, even today, can tell you stories of how proud she felt about her sister Malindy, who would walk up out of the cotton field and find company sitting on the steps and then would take a shelf of nothing and make the best meal you ever tasted."

While this cookbook does preserve the foodways of southern African Americans of the past, the recipes are food traditions that live today in the rural South. The author has included also recipes that are traditional treatments of more recently available foods, such as lobster with cornbread stuffing. ... Read more

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A wonderful combination of recipes and stories
The Soul Of Southern Cooking is a wonderful combination of recipes and stories that evoke a time when black families had to make-do in the midst of hard times, yet were able to develop and enjoy a variety of delicious meals with a culinary tradition popularly referred to as "soul food". From Homemade Hog Head Souse; Neckbone and Macaroni Stew; Delta Fried Catfish; and Sunday's Fried Corn; to Boiled Chicken Feet and Legs; Stovetop Roast Beef; Celery Seed Dressing; Ten-Minute Oven Pecan Brittle; and Mrs. Hunter's Southern Tea Cakes, The Soul Of Southern Cooking fully lives up to its title and will prove a welcome and unique addition to the family cookbook collection. ... Read more

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Imagine a year's worth of the best recipes from "Southern Living" magazine all in one cookbook--nearly 1,000 recipes, as well as every menu and kitchen shortcuts from the magazine's 1997 issues. Quick tip boxes offer suggestions for food safety, make-ahead options, and easy entertaining. 65 color photos. ... Read more

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A book I open all the time for new ideas
I own several of the Southern Living compilation books and this one is myfavorite. I like the variety of "family-tested" recipes and Iappreciate the way items are organized together for meal ideas. I use thiscookbook constantly, no matter what the season! ... Read more

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Egerton explores southern food in over 200 restaurants in 11 southern states and describes their specialties and recounts his conversations with owners, cooks, waiters, and customers. He offers over 150 regional recipes, including barbecue, spoonbread, muscadine jam, and key lime pie, with information about each one. ... Read more

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Great book!
I bought this for my husband for his birthday last month, and he couldn't put it down.He absolutely loved learning about the history of Southern food (seeing as how we're more or less Southern), and I'm looking forward to reading the book as well when I can find the time.The recipes in the book seem really good too, but we haven't prepared anything yet.Overall a satisfied customer!

Excellent read/resource
Any foodie that's living in or heading South needs to read this book.

A comprehensive "social history" of southern food spiced up with a few recipes... it's a great readand even though it was written over 20 years ago many of the restaurants mentioned are still in business.

I highly recommend this book!
M Ivey, Westerville, OH

Great, even if partially dated
This book is a must-have for any fan of Southern cooking or serious student of Southern culture.Be warned, though, that about a third of the book is a survey of eating places across the South, and inevitably quite out of date, since the book is fifteen years old.(Well-traveled fans of Southern food might enjoy it from a nostalgic point of view.)Even without that part of the book, however, it is still worth it, and it has a fantastic bibliography.

the best book in my library
As a Southerner exiled to the frozen tundra of Wisconsin, John Egerton's SOUTHERN FOOD has been food for the soul.And no matter where you are from, this book offers fascinating historical and cultural information about Southern food and many, many wonderful recipes.I have learned as much about Southern cooking in Wisconsin as I did in all my years back home, all because of this wonderful book.It's charming and often lyrical, immensely well-informed, and points the way to both restaurants and recipes.The barbecue instructions have been a lifesaver.I have bought five or six copies of this book--one because I wore out the first copy, and the others because it makes a great gift for practically anyone.

This book will make your mouth water and your belly growl
This is a wonderful book about eating in the South, eating out and eating in, about a whole host of things like family and fellowship that gather around any groaning board in the south, and what you want to eat where andwhat the people who live there eat, how to cook it and where you're likelyto find it at a reasonable price made by food-loving hands. John Egertonclearly ate his way across the south to write this book, and he was carefulto stay well off the beaten path. It's anthropology, sociology, recipes,culture and good humor, from the North Carolina mountains to the swamps ofCajun country. This book will make your mouth water and your belly growl,but most of all it's a fine read. ... Read more

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PERFECT GIFT FOR DAUGHTER
THIS IS ANOTHER GREAT EDITION OF SOUTHERN LIVING ANNUAL RECIPES FROM 1988.
MY DAUGHTER RECEIVED THIS 1988 EDITION (THE YEAR OF HER BIRTH) WITH THIS YEAR'S EDITION (THE YEAR OF HER WEDDING).TOGETHER THE TWO BOOKS MADE A NICE GIFT AND EVERYONE LIKED THE IDEA OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DATED COLLECTIONS. ... Read more

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Discusses everyday life, family roles, cooking methods, most important foods, and celebrations of people on southern plantations before the Civil War. Includes recipes. ... Read more

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Phenomenal book!
I ordered this book to give as a gift, but I think I'm going to have to get another one for me!First of all, the selection of recipes is amazing.You have everything in here from appetizers, to drinks, to main courses, baked goods, side dishes, and of course, heavenly desserts.As I was reading the pages, I was practically drooling at some of the foods.Then - the PICTURES....oh my if they don't wet your appetite then there is something wrong with you!I found page after page of recipes I want to try, and from the ingredients listed (from being a very experienced cook) I just know they are going to be superb.I have other Southern Living cookbooks, so there's no doubt in my mind the recipes in this book will be fabulous also.I know the recipient of this book will love it - it's a beautiful book and makes for a really nice gift.

Great book and great price
A friend at work purchased this book and let me browse through it.I loved it.As usual I came home and checked Amazon for the best price.I bought this book used, in excellent condition and at a fraction of what my friend paid.It is filled with wonderful recipes!

Christmas Entertaining Must-Have
I got this cookbook last year and made 7 recipes out of it for a Christmas Eve open house.Every single recipe turned out perfectly and was beyond delicious.I'm not sure what went wrong the with recipes that S. Robinson tried but my experience was the absolute opposite of hers.
Here's what I made:
Buttery Blue Cheese and Walnut Spread (served in a bread bowl-yum! I don't even really like blue cheese and I loved this dip)
Gingerbread Bites with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting (my neighbor couldn't even speak when she tasted these because they were so good-and she still talks about them a year later!)
Pear and Goat Cheese Tarts (Gourmet and foolproof, these are excellent hot or cold-they might make you cry, they're so good)
Sparkly Cranberry Scones (so easy to make it's silly-I have used all kinds of different fruits in this recipe and they turn out perfectly every time)
Chocolate Mint Cake with Ganache Frosting (Oh. My. God.I messed up the recipe and doubled the butter and it was still one of the most delicious things I've ever eaten in my life!!)
Peppery Cheese bread (Savory and delicious, it was easy to make and even tasted good warmed up the next day)
Brown-Sugar Pecan Coffee Cake (decadent and delicious, we had this Christmas morning and I couldn't stop eating it even though I was still full from the night before)
I have to note that I am not an extremely experienced cook and although it took me a lot of time to make all of these, they weren't difficult.
I can't recommend this book enough. I also bought the Willams Sonoma Holiday Entertaining book and it just sat forlorly on the shelf, while this book got heavy use.I have about 30 more post-it notes in it on the recipes I still want to try!

Book
The book arrived in a timely manner. It had some writing on some pages that wasn't indicated but it was still less expensive.

Great book!
Boy, do I ever love these books!Each year this time I always start looking for both these Southern Living books for Christmas, as well as the Gooseberry Patch books.Not sure which of the two is my favorite, they've all been mostly wonderful and I cook from them throughout the year.This one I liked in particular because it is broken down into menus.And, when you're in a hurry, that sure helps out a bunch!If you don't buy it for any other reason than for the coconut cakes on the front cover, it's money WELL spent!Wow, what a great recipe!Even went out and bough a special pan to make them.Yum!I don't know how Southern Living keeps from running out of ideas each year, but this one's definitely a keeper!I'm off to order the new 2009!It probably won't help my sagging cabinet shelf either - too many cookbooks already!Oh well!Highly recommend! ... Read more

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95 southern living cookbook
I love Southern Living cookbooks - they are fantastic - and this one is no different!The price is great the recipes are wonderful~I have several of these in different years and I have yet to try a recipe that my family has not liked. ... Read more

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Revel in fresh approaches to holiday decorating and entertaining, Southern style, with Christmas with Southern Living 2003, a comprehensive guide to doing the holidays right. Readers get an inside look at some of the South`s most beautiful homes decked out in Christmas finery both trendy and traditional. More than 175 color photos beautifully showcase simple, elegant, and easy-to-create decorating motifs, gift projects, and holiday menus. Garland ideas, front door decorations, and treat trimming hints abound throughout, as do new slants on traditional menus and spectacular gift wrapping ideas and solutions. Especially helpful in this edition is the expanded source listing to help readers find the elements they need to create a Christmas that shines for their friends and families.Amazon.com Review
If you're one-stop shopping for great trimming, gift-giving, and cooking ideas, it's hard to do better than Christmas with Southern Living. Filled with glorious photos, excellent directions, and extensive recipes, the large, lush volume presents a bounty of ways to decorate, craft, and entertain in true Southern Living style.

Elegant centerpieces feature pears and partridges, candles and kumquats. Chandeliers drip with ribbons, glass ornaments, and greenery. A clever mantel scarf disguises pockets to hold gifts and treats. Imaginative cookie houses mimic a barn or a country church. Soups and stews, cakes and chocolates are just the beginning when it comes to recipes; there are also full menus for a Mediterranean feast, a rustic cabin meal, a full Southern-style Christmas dinner, and other irresistible party ideas.

An exhaustive source list provides contact information for supplies as well as specific items (such as china, furnishings, and even entire historic houses) showcased in the photos. An added bonus is the holiday planning guide, complete with entertainment organizer forms, helpful holiday hints, napkin-folding diagrams, and card and gift list blanks. Crafters and hosts from any geographical region will enjoy preparing for the holidays under the expert guidance in this stunning book. --Amy Handy ... Read more

Customer Reviews (18)

Love, love, love this book!
I was so happy to find this book to complete my collection of 12 years.And what a great bonus!I received this new book in perfect condition and in a very timely manner.Thank you very much.The book is wonderful and beautiful, and I'm very happy.

Southern Living Cookbook 2001
The cost is great especially since I trying to get a complete collection of Southern Living Christmas cookbooks.This cookbook is in great condition even though it is six years old, as was noted on the sellers page.I will continue ording until I complete my collection.I am grateful to the sellers for providing an avenue that allows me to find the missing years that I looking for.Thank you.

Southern Living 2005
I love this book!!I had originally bought this book for the wonderful
christmas decor ideas...great centerpieces, table scapes, wreaths..ect.
I happen to decorate my house in a very "natural", woodsy theme and this book has loads of those...all just beautiful.To top it off, it has wonderful recipes too! Many times you will get a book like this and it will have a few things you love but the majority is so so. Not this one, I can say that I love everything in this book! Great purchase.

Punkinhead
Not what I expected. I have most of the other editions and it seems they took the best of the past 25 years and put it all in one book. I hope that 2006 edition is better!!!

Totally enjoyed the book!!
This was my first purchase of a Christmas With Southern Living book and I was quite happy with my purchase and am anticipating the 2006!!I took this to my parents one weekend when my sisters were there and they all wanted a copy.I used quite a few of the recipes from the book for my Thanksgiving Dinner and they went over well especially the Butter Coconut Pie--YUMMY.As I am not a seasoned CWSL book buyer I don't have others to compare it to (except for one from the 1990's my sister gave me which I felt was not half as nice as this one)but would give this ***** five stars. ... Read more

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Southern barbecue and barbecue traditions are the primary focus of Cornbread Nation 2, our second collection of the best of Southern food writing. "Barbecue is the closest thing we have in the United States to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes," writes John Shelton Reed. Indeed, no other dish is served a dozen different ways just between Memphis and Birmingham.

In tribute to what Vince Staten calls "the slowest of the slow foods," contributors discuss the politics, sociology, and virtual religion of barbecue in the South, where communities are defined by what wood they burn, what sauce they make, and what they serve with barbecue. Jim Auchmutey links barbecue to the success of certain Southern politicians; Marcie Cohen Ferris looks at kosher brisket; and Robb Walsh investigates why black cooks have been omitted from the accepted histories of Texas barbecue, despite their seminal role in its development.

Beyond the barbecue pit, John Martin Taylor sings the virtues of boiled peanuts, Calvin Trillin savors Cajun boudin, and Eddie Dean revisits his days driving an ice cream truck deep in the Appalachian Mountains. From barbecue to scuppernongs to popsicles, the forty-three newspaper columns, magazine pieces, poems, and essays collected here confirm that a bounty of good writing exists when it comes to good eating, Southern style. ... Read more

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Mostly Barbecue, All Very Interesting
Obligatory reading for anyone who's a food geek, especially if you are a barbecue wonk. If you've spent a whole day (or night) cooking a 10 pound pork shoulder or obsessed about which combination of 15 spices will taste best on a chicken thigh (and really, who hasn't?) then this book is for you.

About three quarters of the book is dedicated to barbecue - the rest is dedicated to southern cooking and food, including a chapter on a geophagy, something I never heard of... the eating of dirt. Who knew that mudpies were a nutritional staple in some parts of the world!!??

Overall, it is very good writing on a specific topic - you'd better like barbecue enough to read story after story about it - which makes it not for everyone, but great read for those looking for it.

"The only thing left to do is savor and smile."
The Southern Foodways Alliance was founded to celebrate, teach, preserve, and promote the food cultures of the American South.Cornbread Nation 2: The United States of Barbecue is a collection of stories, poems, and essays about the foodways of the mountain South. It is one of a continuing series which includes Cornbread Nation 1: The Best of Southern Food Writing, Cornbread Nation 3: Foods of the Mountain South and Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing.

Lolis Eric Elie writes in the introduction: "Other foods cover the geographic expanse of this nation, just as barbecue does. You can find fried chicken, hamburgers, hot dogs, and pizza from coast to coast. But none of these foods enjoy the great regional variation that barbecue does. None of them exemplify the competing themes of American unity and diversity as barbecue does. You don't hear heated arguments about the fundamental differences between the hamburgers in Albuquerque and those in Altoona. Hamburgers just ain't that deep. As John Shelton Reed reminds us in "Barbecue Sociology: The Meat of the Matter," "Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes."

While there are a few non-barbecue pieces in this second edition of the series devoted to southern foods, barbeque is the name of the game. It points out that getting together for barbecues was popular before the Revolutionary War. George Washington hosted barbecues including one at Accotinck in May 1773 and buying flour "for barbecue" [for biscuits?] in August.

"Barbecue" is an amalgam from the Haitian "barbacoa" and "babracot," believed to be from Guianian Indians, according to the "Oxford English Dictionary." Fish or meat were cooked over a fire on a wooden grill of sticks set on posts. There is still intense debate over whether the best barbecue is pork, beef, chicken, fish or lamb. As Elie points out: "Though the various versions of barbecue differ from each other as much as cows differ from sheep, or as much as tomatoes differ from mustard seeds, the common themes of wood and smoke, meat and sauce, family and fellowship transcend regional rivalries and recipe differences."

This edition is padded out with a few non- barbecue pieces which are well worth enjoying. Pat Conroy teaches us that food and funerals go together in "Love, Death, and Macaroni." John Martin Taylor is eloquent on boiled peanuts. Susan Allport's "Women Who Eat Dirt" describes a practice common in the south, and even now in Harlem grocery stores there are enormous offerings of starch, not for starching shirts but to meet the need for "clean" earth, awfully hard to come by in New York City.

At one time, New York City was considered a barbecue wasteland, like Paris, London and L.A. But there is a new smoker technology that the Department of Health has approved, and a number of topflight barbecue restaurants have opened here. If you find your mouth watering after reading some of these pieces, you'll be able to satisfy your hunger for an authentic style. As this excellent book proves, making that choice is not trivial.

Robert C. Ross 2008

Not Only Barbecue
This is a welcome addition to a promising series, although it is slightly misleading, due probably to the nature of the series. It is only about half to two-thirds about barbecue, although within that are some really terrific and far-ranging essays. The balance is about other Southern foodways, including boiled peanuts (as a previous reviewer noted)and boudin, although any book on any subject is enhanced by Calvin Trillin's contribution. He HAS written on barbecue (indeed, his piece on Arthur Bryant's is a landmark), but the Cornbread Nation does not promise to be inclusive. It sho' nuff makes one hungry though!

Every Barbecue Lover Should Have This Book
Cornbread Nation 2 should have been printed using waterproof paper! Reading the varied writings contained between its covers will have anyone who appreciates barbecue drooling like Pavlov's dogs.
Elie has done a masterful job of assembling some of the most vivid food writing-on barbecue-imaginable. The depth of subject matter is both stunning and satisfying in what it brings to the table.

It is my opinion that including Smith's Rhetoric of Barbecue treatise is alone worth the investment in this book. Often quoted as snippets in other books,here it is in it's entirety for the very first time.

Quite simply, this is a book to be treasured by anyone who loves barbecue, southern culture or U.S. history. I can safely bet that once you begin reading Cornbread Nation 2, you'll find yourself becoming ravenous for some good slow cooked barbecue! ... Read more

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Great southern cookbook
This is by far my most often used cookbook.My mother-in-law gave it to me back when it was just out, and it is still the one I turn to first 25 years later. The toll house marble squares recipe on page 354 is the favorite with my children and their friends.One of the things I love about this cookbook is that there are multiple recipes for the same dish so you can choose the variation that you like the best.I have recently purchased used ones for both my daughters. ... Read more

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Southern and Mountain recipes hold an original flavor all their own.Often thought of as guilty pleasures, these foods are very down to earth and original.In this book, you will find the best of these recipes.

Often thought of as the wonderful food you would have gotten when going to Grandma’s house, this book will allow you to recreate those memories of the old days with great food and family memories.

We have endeavored to combine the practical with the unusual in order to provide an outstanding book of favorite foods that will be treasured and enjoyed by all.

Among the recipes included are:
Pot Roast, Meatloaf, Country Biscuits, Cabbage Rolls, Peanut Butter Balls, Heavenly Hash, Bourbon Balls, Rum Balls, 7-Up Cake,Dump Cake, Strawberry Soda pop Cake, Oatmeal Cookies, Chicken & Dumplings, Baked Beans, Hash Browns, Corn Bread, Peanut Butter Cake, Crunchy Ice Cream Squares, Chicken Tempura, Lasagna, Red Velvet Cake, Potato Salad, Cole Slaw, Peanut Brittle, Potato Pinwheel Candy, Chow Chow, Pickled Eggs, Fruit Cobbler, Pound Cake, Chocolate Velvet Cake, Old Fashioned Stack Cake, Meat Balls, Macaroni Salad, Rice Pudding, Zucchini Bread, Peanut Butter Fudge, Fruit Cocktail Cake, Dirt Cake, No Bake Cookies, Grandma’s Sugar Cookies, Pumpkin Bread, Pumpkin Cheesecake, Chocolate Vanilla Swirl Cheesecake, Pumpkin Pie, Oatmeal Carmelites, Deviled Eggs, Hog Jowls & Turnip Greens, Chocolate Pie, Coconut Custard Pie, Crab Dip, Hot Pepper Cheese Balls, Egg Nog, Wassail, Thanksgiving Yams & Topping, Pecan Pie, Doughnuts, Parker House Rolls, Sausage Rolls, Chicken Wings, Funnel Cake, Peach Pie, Hershey Bar Pie, Potato Soup, Five Bean Salad, Homemade Pizza, And Many, Many More...

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Great Book
If you love Southern Living or are just learning to cook, this is a great book for you. ... Read more