The Soul of Southern Cooking (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781588380524)

This cookbook, with integrated brief essays, was a regional bestseller for the University Press of Mississippi when it was published in 1989. Republished now with a new introduction, the book collects a fine black cook's recipes from a hard-scrabble heritage of surviving and enduring while rejoicing in the family ties that bind. The foods that Kathy Starr describes rise from the common experiences of Deep South blacks, who established a distinctive style of cooking, often with make-do ingredients. Its "soul," the author confides, comes from the art of simmering. Its heritage is preserved here in a collection that captures the essence of black foodways in the American South.

Author: Kathy Starr
ISBN-10: 1588380521
ISBN-13: 9781588380524
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2001
Pages: 194
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Black Issues Book Review 11/01/2002 pg. 56