True Grits: The Southern Foods Mail-Order Catalog

By Joni Miller

Inspired by its Southern author's frustrating search for her favorite grits from her Northern home, True Grits is a Southern grocery store between two covers. This guide-a necessity for anyone with Southern roots or a fondness for Southern food-provides ordering information for more than 150 essential Southern ingredients and handmade specialty foods now available beyond the Mason-Dixon line. Now it's easy to stock our pantries with White Lily Flour, cans of Ro*Tel tomatoes, pickled okra, Goo Goo Clusters, ten different barbecue sauces, sweets from Kern's Kitchen Derby Pie to Warrenton Plum Pudding-and, of course, grits. True Grits is also a fascinating journey into Southern culture, with food festivals, folklore, unusual recipes, nostalgia, and side-bars-the Dr. Pepper Story, how to handle a country ham, and more. Finally the larder of the South is open to kitchens across the country. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0894803441
• ISBN13: 9780894803444
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Workman Pub Co
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful

This book is a fantastic resourse for finding those hard to get recipies and Southern products. You can save a lot of time reading this book compared to searching on the web. Not growing up in the South or not having traveled there I had very little knowledge of; Southern cooking, recipies, and products. For those people who live and stay on the west cost... get a clue with this wonderful book. Discover new flavors, textures, and great recipies to intrigrate into your every day life style. You can never go wrong with stone ground buttered grits.