Review: Not especially secret or southern, more mid-western, in my opinion
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2014
As others have noted, this collection of '500' recipes has a lot of repeats.  Ms. Craddock must have been a cook not at all set in her ways.  My husband was mid-western and my mother-in-law was queen of the casserole.  This book's many casseroles and its heavy use of canned soups and boxed cake mixes suggest many of her mid-western recipes to me.  In among them you will probably find many recipes you'd forgotten from your mom's cooking (especially if she was a southern cook, or a mid-western cook, and especially if she enjoyed quirky casserole and salad concoctions).  It's worth the price (free), if you enjoy trolling recipe books for 'new' ideas, as I do.One caution: As with so many Kindle books, this one is rife with confusing jumbles of ingredients and amounts.  I assume this is a function of the Kindle digitization process and not poor editing.