Southern cooking, the most interesting and complex regional cuisine in America, remains a mystery to many professional cooks and southerners. With a stellar collection of recipes, Neal reveals the background and subtleties of southern foods. He uses imaginative new ways with old standards to make the recipes more accessible, but he never resorts to shortcuts or processed ingredients. He also shows how the meeting of Native American, Western European, and African cultures has created this cuisine.
Part cookbook, part memoir, this volume both instructs and entertains, showing the lasting importance of Bill Neal's influence in the American regional cooking movement as well as being a muse and a mentor to a generation of Southern home ...
Gardener's Latin leads you down the path from abbreviatus to zonatus, turning aside here and there to point out little-known horticultural facts and fables and the wisdom of gardeners from Virgil to Vita Sackville-West.
Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie was first published in 1990. (Not for sale in the British Commonwealth (except Canada), Ireland, or South Africa.)
Includes sixty recipes for side dishes, entrees, muffins, bread, and cakes which use grits, and discusses such issues as whether the word "grits" is singular or plural, and why only people in the South eat grits THE GENIUS OF GRITS The ...
... Neal wrote three more books, Good Old Grits (with David Perry), Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie, and Gardener's Latin, as well as countless magazine articles. He also edited a new edition of The Kentucky Housewife and a ...
“Argenteuil asparagus” William F. Neal, Bill Neal's Southern Cooking (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985), 2. his wife, Moreton Neal Claiborne, “For a Carolina Chef, Helpings of History.
5 The publication of Bill Neal's Southern Cooking (1985) marked a turning point in regional food as Neal and his protégées expanded and redefined southern cuisine, yet honored its history and culture. La Residence, followed by Bill ...
Presents easy-to-follow instructions for Southern-style quickbreads, cookies, cakes, pies and pastries, skillet breads, and old-fashioned yeast breads, accompanied by a short overview of each recipe's origins.
New Southern Cooking. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. ... Nathalie always provides good food and easy to follow, thoroughly tested recipes. Edminston, Mrs. Jack R., ... Neal, William F. Bill Neal's Southern Cooking, (Revised Edition).
Decades of Recipes, a Dash of Reminiscence, and a Pinch of History from America's Most Famous Kitchen. ... Neal, Bill. Bill Neal's Southern Cooking. University of North Carolina Press, 1985. Neal, Bill, and Bill Perry. Good Old Grits.