Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook

Martha Hall Foose

Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
15 October 2008
Pages
248
ISBN
9780307351401

Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook

Martha Hall Foose

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 ingredientucardamom; and her much-ballyhooed Sweet Tea Pie combines two great Southern staplesusweet tea and pie, of courseuto 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 cookuand a must-read for anyone who craves a return to what cooking is all about: comfort, company, and good eating.

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