num_pages: 248
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 ingredientcardamom; and her much-ballyhooed Sweet Tea Pie combines two great Southern staplessweet tea and pie of courseto 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 cookand a must-read for anyone who craves a return to what cooking is all about: comfort company and good eating.
language: English
title: Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook
publisher: Clarkson Potter