Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook | 
 enlarge | Author: Martha Hall Foose
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
List Price: $32.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 3102
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0307351408
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5975
EAN: 9780307351401
ASIN: 0307351408
Publication Date: April 29, 2008
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Product Description
Gifted chef and storyteller Martha Hall Foose invites you into her kitchen to share recipes that bring alive the landscape, people, and traditions that make Southern cuisine an American favorite.
Born and raised in Mississippi, Foose cooks Southern food with a contemporary flair: Sweet Potato Soup is enhanced with coconut milk and curry powder; Blackberry Limeade gets a lift from a secret ingredient–cardamom; and her much-ballyhooed Sweet Tea Pie combines two great Southern staples–sweet tea and pie, of course–to make one phenomenal signature dessert. The more than 150 original recipes are not only full of flavor, but also rich with local color and characters.
As the executive chef of the Viking Cooking School, teaching thousands of home cooks each year, Foose crafts recipes that are the perfect combination of delicious, creative, and accessible. Filled with humorous and touching tales as well as useful information on ingredients, techniques, storage, shortcuts, variations, and substitutions, Screen Doors and Sweet Tea is a must-have for the American home cook–and a must-read for anyone who craves a return to what cooking is all about: comfort, company, and good eating.
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 An excellent first outing November 28, 2008
I buy, and recieve, hundreds of cookbooks each year. This might be the best cookbook I purchased this year. My publisher says that if someone cooks six recipes out of a cookbook, it is a major success. The first time I thumbed through Foose's book, there were several dozen recipes I wanted to prepare.
Foose got her start at the La Brea Bakery in Los Angeles, and moved on to several bakeries in Mississippi. However, where Foose shines in this, her first publishing effort, is on the savory courses that take place well before dessert-- Inside Out Sweet Potatoes, Lady Pea Salad, and Chicken Thighs and Dumplings to list just a few.
From the banana pudding she cooked for Oprah (in individual Mason jars) to Catfish in a Paper Sack, the book is filled with recipes new, true, and Southern
Great cookbook November 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful cookbook. The recipes are easy to make, and the book is very beautiful. Great pictures and stories. I read the whole thing from cover to cover without putting it down! Loved it!
Screen Doors and Sweet Tea November 4, 2008
Excellent content and very attractivly packaged. Great gift for wives, mothers, grandmothers and new brides.
screen doors and sweet tea October 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Apricot Rice Salad, Watermelon Salsa, new fashion Cabbage Rolls plus a few concotions with burbon that you haven't thought of yet, its all in here. The author treats the reader with a small story about how the recipie came about, that reads like a book. All in all, the cookbook is delightful and the recipies will be your new old favorites. I have family on the west coast that I'm buying another copy to give to them, the recipies are delicious and so are the stories of how they got concocted. The author trained in france but this is her honest to goodness southern recipies, with a twist that makes them new again. Delightful.
 just hated the book September 26, 2008
0 out of 14 found this review helpful
I paid full price for this book, not usual for me. I just did not like this book. I didn't like the recipts, nor did I like the stories.
It was just not my cup of tea. (excuse the pun)
And, what is a pompano? yes, I get it is a fish but I don't recall being able to purchase it in the shoprite.
I just didn't like the book I guess. ( PS, I was raised in the south).
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