A Good Meal is Hard to Find
Description
Shop Notes:
This cookbook exemplifies what I love about cookbooks and the South. It is colorful, funny, charming, and full of good food. This isn't just a great cookbook, it's truly fun to read and would make a great gift.
From the Publisher:
A Good Meal Is Hard to Find is more than just a cookbook: it's a love letter to the women and food of the Deep South.
With charming narratives, visual storytelling, and delectable recipes, A Good Meal Is Hard to Find is everything you've ever wanted in a Southern cookbook.
Inside are 60 go-to recipes organized into five chaptersMorning's Glories, Lingering Lunches, Dinner Dates ; Late-Night Takes, Afternoon Pick-Me-Ups, and Anytime Sweets. Recipes written by award-winning cookbook author and Southern food expert Martha Hall Foose, as part of a collaboration with Amy C. Evans.
Each of the 60 recipes opens with a short vignette about a story about a unique Southern character.
Divided into five chapters from breakfast to dinner, with cocktails and desserts in between
Recipes paired with gorgeous, vintage-inspired acrylic paintings by Amy C. Evans
Inspired by generations of storytelling and Southern comfort food, this genre-bending cookbook is a must-have for cookbook lovers, vintage collectors, and Southern cooking enthusiasts alike.
Recipes include Francine's Strawberry-Glazed Doughnuts, Camille's Bridge Club Egg Salad, The Suzy B's Spinach and Mushroom Frito Pie, Stella's Harissa Gold Chicken, and Estelle's Butterscotch Pound Cake.
About the Authors:
Amy C. Evans is an artist and storyteller. She spent more than a decade documenting Southern food culture through oral history fieldwork, and her paintings continue to be a reflection of her explorations of the South. Amy makes her home with her daughter in Houston, Texas.
Martha Hall Foose is a cookbook author and storyteller. Her bestselling debut, Screen Doors and Sweet Tea, won the James Beard Award for American Cooking and the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Award. Martha makes her home with her family in the Mississippi Delta.
Release Date: Apr 2020
Condition: New