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Damon Lee Fowler's New Southern Kitchen: Traditional Flavors for Contemporary Cooks
Damon Lee Fowler Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0684871696 |
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Rooted in the cuisines of North America, Europe, and Africa, Southern cooking is delicious, classic fare. But according to Damon Lee Fowler's New Southern Cooking, traditional dishes like fried chicken, gumbo, cornbread, and pecan pie aren't the whole story. Stating that Southern cooking as such makes sense only if we recognize it as the result of multiple interpretations over time, Fowler presents his versions of traditional dishes that also take into account today's busy, health-conscious world. His recipe for Grilled Pork Tenderloins with Bourbon Mustard Glaze, for example, honors the Southern passion for pork, but uses a lean cut of meat. The result of Fowler's approach is 160 easily made recipes that salute the old and the new delectably.In chapters that cover every course from appetizers and snacks to breads and desserts, Fowler finds innovative ways with quintessential Southern ingredients, offering the likes of Baked Pecan-Crusted Goat Cheese with Warm Peach Chutney, Green Tomato Gumbo, and even Sweet Potato Latkes with Homemade Applesauce and Crème Fraîche. He also offers polished examples of traditional fare, including Grilled Breaded Veal Chops, Scalloped Eggplant a la Creole, and, of course, Buttermilk Fried Chicken (touched unconventionally with garlic). Bread lovers will dote on Fowler's Cinnamon Pecan Drop Biscuits, while fans of dessert should swoon for the likes of Maryan's Chocolate Pound Cake, Lemon Pecan Pie, and Shortbread Banana Pudding. With menus and a useful list of ingredient sources, the book is an exciting addition to the Southern cookbook shelf. --Arthur Boehm
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WHAT'S SO NEW ABOUT THE NEW SOUTHERN KITCHEN?
It's the way Damon Lee Fowler, author of Classical Southern Cooking, coaxes the timeless flavors of yesterday from the markets and kitchens of today. Rather than simply reproduce traditional Southern food, Fowler presents more than 160 mouthwatering, perfect-every-time recipes that take into account how we come by ingredients, the equipment we use to prepare them, and our more health-conscious way of living. The result is food that honors the spirit, the history, and especially the taste of the classic Southern table.
Southern cooking, as most people think of it, doesn't exist. After all, there are as many ways to make "real" corn bread, gumbo, or fried chicken as there are cooks. So instead of dwelling on hidebound notions of authenticity, Fowler focuses on the essence of great Southern food, combining traditional ingredients in fresh ways and finding nuances of flavor and texture that may have been overlooked before.
This is an unapologetically opinionated and singular book, both colored by the tastes of the author's palate, upbringing, and experiences, and connected to every cook who has ever and will ever step into a kitchen with a Southern idea of flavor in mind. In these pages you won't find "nouveau" Southern dishes that simply add cilantro or jalapeño peppers. You will find Pecan-Crusted Goat Cheese with Warm Peach Chutney, combining the best of old and new Southern elements. Pan-Broiled Pork Tenderloins with Caramelized Onions honors the Southern passion for pig but uses a lean cut of meat. Asparagus Shortcake and Shrimp and Green Tomato Gumbo put a savory twist on old favorites. Pound Cake Sandwiches, made with Bourbon Pound Cake; Orange-Praline Trifle; and Sweet Potato Ice Cream are all soul-satisfying endings to any meal.
With suggested menus and resources for finding the best Southern ingredients, Damon Lee Fowler's New Southern Kitchen is sure to become a contemporary classic and an essential volume in every cookbook library, whether north or south of the Mason-Dixon line.
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Entertaining and Helpful.......2007-01-09
Tasting great, authentic, and not fattening.......2004-06-21
i cannot believe i am the first one to rate this book!.......2003-08-23
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The New Southern Cook: 200 Recipes from the South's Best Chefs and Home Cooks
John Martin Taylor Manufacturer: Bantam ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0553378066 Release Date: 1997-06-02 |
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John Martin Taylor is one of the cooks and writers devoted to preserving traditional Southern American cooking and to reviving interest in it. He is also creatively talented in the kitchen. Taylor, known as "Hoppin' John," focused on the traditions of the South in an earlier book, Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking. In The New Southern Cook, he offers regional dishes gathered from local chefs and cooks from Texas to Appalachia, in addition to his own great cookin'. With the background Taylor provides, you'll appreciate dishes from Virginia's Peanut Soup to Peanut Hummus, and Deep-Fried Turkey Breast to Banana-Fried Sea Bass. Noting that cooking evolves as a living thing, he considers Green Tomato Soup and Tequila-Glazed Pork Roast as legitimate and Southern as Carrots in Ginger Ale and Crab Cakes. A wine aficionado, he provides recommendations with many dishes, but suggests beer or lemonade with barbecue!Book Description
What's cooking down South? "Hoppin' John" Taylor has traveled from Hilton Head to Galveston to find out. He's collected more than 200 authentic southern dishes, the best of the old and the new, from the finest private homes in Charleston, a classic Creole restaurant in New Orleans, and the recipe files of the great chefs and cooks in kitchens from Dallas to New Orleans, complete with wine notes. From easy Shrimp Gumbo and old fashioned grits to Country-Fried Steak with Mashed Potatoes and Gravy; from Crab Cakes with Black Bean relish to Green Tomato Soup, the recipes will introduce you to the varied, energetic, often surprising cuisine of today's South; food that nourishes both the body and soul.Customer Reviews:
The not-so-Southern Southern cook.......2004-01-06
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The Rough Guide to New Orleans
Samantha Cook Manufacturer: Rough Guides ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1858287448 |
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INTRODUCTIONAs it enters its fourth century, New Orleans remains proudly apart from the rest of the United States. Intoxicating and addictive, the product of a dizzying jumble of cultures, peoples and influences, it's a place where people dance at funerals and hold parties during hurricanes, where some of the world's finest musicians make ends meet busking on street corners, and fabulous Creole cuisine is dished up in hole-in-the-wall dives. There's a wistfulness, too, in the peeling, ice-cream-toned facades of the old French Quarter - site of the original settlement - in the filigree cast-iron balconies overgrown with lush ferns and fragrant jasmine, and in the cemeteries, or "Cities of the Dead", lined with crumbling above-ground tombs. Doubtless New Orleans' melancholy air - and perhaps its joie de vivre, too - is due to the city's perilous geography. Set largely below sea level, and exposed to the devastating storms that career through the Gulf of Mexico, the city could be washed or! blasted away in an instant.
Founded by the French in 1718 on the swampy flood plain of the lower Mississippi River, and today spreading back as far as the enormous Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans is almost entirely surrounded by water, which since its earliest days has both isolated it from the interior and connected it to the outside world. By the time the Americans bought it, in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, New Orleans was a cosmopolitan city whose ethnically diverse population had mingled to create a distinctive Creole culture. In the nineteenth century its importance as a port made the city the haunt of smugglers, gamblers, prostitutes and pirates, who gave it the decadent "sin city" notoriety that it still has today. Ever since then more and more visitors, among them an inordinate number of artists, writers and sundry bohemians, have poured in to see what the fuss was about; many found themselves staying, unable to shake the place out of their system.
Given its allure New Orleans is a surprisingly small town, with its million or so residents spread across a patchwork of neighborhoods. Its compact size makes it a dream to visit; simple to get around and easy to get to know, it's one of the best places in the United States to kick back and unwind for a few days. Above all, New Orleans is less a city of major sights than of sensual pleasures. With its subtropical climate, Latin-influenced architecture and black majority population, its voodoo worshippers and its long-held carnival traditions, it is often called the northernmost Caribbean city. The pace of life is slow here, while the sybaritic vices are relished - no more so than during the many festivals, especially, of course, the world-famous carnival of Mardi Gras, when real life is put on hold as businessmen and bus-boys alike are swept along by an increasingly frenzied season of parties, street parades and masquerade balls. Whatever time of year you come, you'll slip easily into the indolent way of life, rejecting an itinerary of museum-hopping in favor of a stroll around the French Quarter, where the vibrant street life and decaying buildings provide endless feasts for the eye; a leisurely steamboat cruise on the Mississippi; or simply a long cool drink in a hidden courtyard. Perhaps the most taxing thing you'll do is head out on the slow-moving old streetcar to the residential Garden District, where dark green shrubs weighed down by fat magnolia blossoms squat in the shadow of centuries-old live oaks tangled with ragged gray streamers of Spanish moss.
Though many of the city's most lingering pleasures come after dark, when the streets fill with people eating in the hundreds of superb restaurants, drinking at its many characterful bars and enjoying a live-music scene to rival any in the world, there's a whole lot more to New Orleans - the "Big Easy", the "city that care forgot" - than its fame as a nonstop party town. Ravaged by the Civil War and since then trailing in the wake of its more dynamic Southern rivals, today New Orleans depends heavily upon the cash brought by the millions of tourists seduced by the allure of authentic jazz, fine food and free-flowing alcohol. While having enormous amounts of fun here, you're always liable to be pulled up short by the divisions between rich and poor (and, more explicitly, between white and black). Just footsteps away from the feted French Quarter and Garden District - themselves touched by decrepitude and decay - lie woefully neglected housing projects and poverty-scarred neighborhoods.
Perversely, New Orleans' second-league status, in commercial terms, has protected it from the modernization that has ripped out the old hearts of wealthier cities, and allowed it to hold on to its distinctive character. And this sense of historic continuity is not limited to architecture. From the devout celebration of Catholic saints' days and the offerings left at voodoo shrines, to the local street parades, in which umbrella-twirling dancers and blasting brass bands lead crowds of thousands through poor black neighborhoods just as they have done for several centuries, much of the city's vitality and its sheer panache comes from a heartfelt belief that what has gone before is worth keeping. The melange of cultures and races that built New Orleans still gives it its heart: not "easy", exactly, but quite unlike anywhere else in the States - or in the world.
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Excellent guide book for New Orleans.......2001-10-18
The guidebook included several helpful maps and some nice historical/background detail.
It has a great section about visiting plantations along River Road to the west of the city. We rented a car and took a daytrip out along the River Road and found the info that was provided to be accurate and insightful.
The book's introduction to the Garden District, how to get there, what to see, etc. was excellent.
We followed several of the book's restaurant recommendations and were quite pleased - the book recommended both Mother's Cafe and The Acme Oyster House, both of which were gems.
Lots of little surprises, very well written.......2000-08-25
I was very glad to see the section listing books and, in particular, movies set in or about New Orleans. Whenever I am going through New Orleans withdrawl I check this guide for movies I haven't seen.
Besides the content, which on a whole is very useful and right up there with the best guide books, I like it's small size. It is easy to carry around with you.
Indispensible!.......2000-04-17
Great pocket guide!.......2000-01-18
Pluses: good coverage of French Quarter attractions; lists plenty of moderate and inexpensive restautants and hotels; helpful tips on navigating the city; easy-to-use maps; compact format
Minuses: index is not comprehensive (if you're looking for a particular restauant, hotel, or attraction, you have to browse the appropriate section); lodging and restaurant guides are selective, not comprehensive (doesn't mention Antoine's!)
Other: focuses heavily on the French Quarter, but also contains information for the rest of the city and surrounding area; contains information for gay travelers (clubs, gay-friendly hotels, etc.)
We (physically) looked at a variety of guides, and this is the one we chose. If it doesn't live up to expectations, expect a follow-up review after our vacation!
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Frank Davis Cooks Naturally N'Awlins
Frank Davis Manufacturer: Pelican Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0882897721 |
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Good Authentic New Orleans Recipes.......2006-03-23
Love My Frank.......2005-08-13
Frank Davis is a grandstanding phony.......2004-07-14
Can't go wrong.......2001-09-16
Great New Orleans Cooking.......2000-09-09
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The Louisiana New Garde
Nancy Ross Ryan Manufacturer: Great Chefs Pub. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0929714644 |
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Damon Lee Fowler's New Southern Baking: Classic Flavors for Today's Cook
Damon Lee Fowler Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0743250583 |
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They are the stuff of Southern legend: fresh-from-the-oven biscuits, skillet-baked cornbread, and melt-in-your-mouth cookies. Whether you remember these heavenly treats from childhood or are creating them for the first time, Damon Lee Fowler's New Southern Baking is a tantalizing collection of Southern baking recipes, balancing the timeless appeal of rural Southern flavors and the modern sensibilities of today's baker.
The history of Southern baking is as rich and varied as its culinary offerings. Writer, teacher, and food historian Damon Lee Fowler is immersed in the traditions of classic Southern baking, and each recipe is infused with memorable Southern flavors that are just as irresistible today. From the warm flavor of Sage and Olive Oil Biscuits to moist, dense Brown Velvet Cake with Dark Fudge Frosting to luscious Bourbon Pecan Squares, this book is both a celebration of traditional baking techniques and an up-to-date guide for delicious and innovative creations.
For the experienced baker or a first-time home cook, Damon Lee Fowler's New Southern Baking is the ideal kitchen companion. With easy-to-follow instructions and baking tips, these essential recipes will effortlessly find their way to your table. The richly satisfying Classic Old-Style Pound Cake is easy to master, and the Plain or 1, 2, 3, 4 Cake is a Southern standard with endless variations. Classics such as Savory Virginia Ham Muffins, Coconut Tea Cakes, and Sweet Potato Waffles are perfect for any occasion, and the Southern ingredients in Sour Cream Cheddar Drop Biscuits, Spicy Cheese Straws, and Lemon Pepper Benne Cocktail Bits add a contemporary twist to any social gathering. And of course, there is a delectable lineup of pies, from Lemon Buttermilk Chess Pie to Gingered Apple Custard Tart to Kentucky Chocolate Chip Bourbon Pie. There are also wonderful new recipes for legendary Southern favorites like Savannah Flatbread and Herbed Skillet Rice Bread, and real old-fashioned yeast breads, including Creole Brioche and Carolina Rice Bread.
In addition to the delightful recipes, Damon Lee Fowler's New Southern Baking is an engaging and informative look at Southern baking heritage, tracing the evolution of our favorite foods and flavors to the welcome table of today. Complete with comprehensive resource lists, Damon Lee Fowler's New Southern Baking brings the warm graciousness of the South to any kitchen.
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An outstanding look at Southern baking traditions.......2007-10-09
Great book for beginning bakers.......2007-03-09
The Proof Is In The Eating.......2006-02-20
Will appeal to all levels of cook with easy recipes and plenty of tips.......2006-02-06
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Mrs. Hill's New Cook Book
Annabella P Hill , and A P Hill Manufacturer: Applewood Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1557095590 |
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Annabella P. Hill (1810-1878) was a socially prominent Georgia native whose encyclopedic treasury of 19th century recipes, cooking advice, and household hints was first published in 1867. This classic receipt book is considered one of the most influential books of the post-Civil War South A facsimile of the 1867 edition.
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The conquest of Mount Cook and other climbs;: An account of four seasons' mountaineering on the Southern Alps of New Zealand
Freda Du Faur Manufacturer: Allen ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00089RWOA |
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A Cook's Tour of the Azalea Coast
New Hanover Pender County Medical Societ , and The Alliance to the New Hanover-Pender C Manufacturer: Auxiliary to New Hanover-Pender County Medica ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 096370270X |
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Garden Fare: Regional Cook Book for Southern New Jersey
The Women's Auxiliary to The Cooper Hospital Manufacturer: The Women's Auxiliary to Cooper Hospital ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: B000MQAA3O |
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CONTENTS: The Garden Spot... p.3 Tributes... p. 4 Illustrations... p. 4 "Presenting... Garden Fare"... p. 6 Hors D'Oeuvres... p. 7 Soups... p. 19 Sea Food... p. 31 Meats and Poultry... p. 53 Vegetables... p. 89 Salads... p. 113 Eggs and Cheese... p. 131 Breads and Cookies... p. 141 Cakes and Pies... p. 165 Desserts... p. 205 Specialties... p. 227 Abbreviations and Equivalents... p. 241 May We Suggest... p. 242 Dining Out in Southern New Jersey... p. 243 Recipe for "Garden Fare"... p. 245 Sponsors... p. 247 Order Form... p. 255Books:
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