Eat Drink Delta: A Hungry Traveler's Journey through the Soul of the South
“Finally! A book devoted entirely to the foodways of Mississippi’s delta—cradle of the civil rights movement, birthplace of the blues, and a confounding culinary region where stuffed grape leaves cozy up to barbecue, tamales to fried green tomatoes, and kibbeh to lemon icebox pie. InEat Drink DeltaMississippi native Susan Puckett makes sense of it all—town by town, kitchen by kitchen, dish by dish—in an engaging travelogue that takes the reader to family-run roadhouses, seasonal tea rooms, postmodern bistros, and out-of-the- way juke joints. In her sojourns, Puckett charmed the best recipes out of the region’s cooks, making this not only the best insider’s guide to the area but a superb delta cookbook as well—you’ll need one copy for the car and one for the kitchen!”—Matt Lee and Ted Lee, authors ofThe Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern: Knockout Dishes with Down-Home Flavor