Secrets of the Southern Table: A Food Lover's Tour of the Global South by Virginia Willis takes the reader on a tour of today's South with not only classic Southern recipes but dishes that draw from the area's many global influences, like Catfish tacos with avocado crema and Mississippi-Style Char Siu pork tenderloin.


In addition to the recipes, Virginia profiles some of the diverse chefs, farmers, and other culinary influencers who are shaping contemporary Southern cuisine. Together, these stories and the delicious recipes that accompany them celebrate the rich and ever-evolving heritage of Southern cooking.Her essays include topics such as Vietnamese shrimpers in Texas and a profile of Anson Mills which produces grains that many chefs - Southern or otherwise - turn to. Of all Virginia's books, this is my favorite - it is as much a great read as a collection of recipes to draw inspiration and cook from. Today, I made peach preserves - tomorrow I'm baking with the rest of my peaches and plan on making the Peach upside-down cake (among other peach desserts) and will come back and update this post (post updated - this recipe is so easy and so delicious!) There are so many recipes in this book that I want to make and thankfully I will be able to make them as Secrets of the Southern Table is one of our selections for next month's Eat Your Books Coobook Club. For those on the fence about this book, it is on sale right now for 2.99 for a Kindle copy. 

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Special thanks to the publisher HMH for supplying the materials needed for our preview as well as for providing three copies of this stunner of a book in our giveaway below. 

 

The publisher is offering three copies of this book to EYB Members in the US and CA. One of the entry options is to answer the following question in the comments section of this blog post.

Which recipe in the index would you try first?

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