What do you get when you mix 19th-Century Southern recipes with a
21st-Century Southern historian? You get a unique volume entitled
Vintage Southern Cookbook: 2,000 Delicious Dishes From Dixie, by
award-winning Tennessee author Col. Lochlainn Seabrook!
In his ongoing personal campaign to preserve authentic Southern history,
Col. Seabrook has compiled, as his subtitle states, thousands of
scrumptious old timey recipes from America's Southland. Spanning the
years 1838 to 1924, the book's recipes provide detailed instructions on
how to prepare a wide variety of Southern victuals - most endemic to
Dixie, but many borrowed from places as diverse as New England, the West
Coast, Europe, and Russia. The recipes - some forgotten, all venerable
and time-tested - are conveniently divided into 28 chapters covering all
of the primary food types, incorporating such popular items as
beverages, breads, soups, meats, seafoods, fruits, and vegetables, as
well as many others. (Those with a sweet tooth will be happy to learn
that the desserts section is the largest.)
From its earliest history the American South has been a multicultural
and multiracial region, and these characteristics are reflected in the
book. Thus within its covers one will find not only European American
recipes, but African American recipes, Asian American recipes, Jewish
American recipes, and Latin American recipes as well, all carefully
hand-picked by the author-editor from a wide assortment of early
American sources. In addition, Col. Seabrook has not only generously
illustrated his volume with some 600 images of old-fashioned dishes,
retro cooking paraphernalia, and pleasing domestic-flavored scenes from
the 1800s and early 1900s, he also includes a massive 50-page index,
nearly 2,000 endnotes, a detailed bibliography, and seven appendices,
the latter which include fascinating practical cooking, serving, and
dining tips by some of the South's most talented Victorian kitchen
authorities.
Col. Seabrook's compact and informative introduction and his special
brand of traditional artistry give this encyclopedic work a comfortable
down-home feel that country cooks, suburban gourmets, hard-working
farmers, nature-loving campers, and hardcore back-to-earthers will
readily appreciate. One will find old favorites as well as obscure foods
and recipes, many with unusual names that will delight children of all
ages. From rural carnivores to urban vegans, from everyday culinarians
to cordon bleu chefs, epicureans of every proficiency level will find
the book indispensable, while historians and Civil War reenactors will
appreciate his effort to save an important part of America's past: Old
South gastronomy. One of the longest and most comprehensive compendiums
of recipes ever collected, Vintage Southern Cookbook is sure to become
a classic in Southern literature. Available in paperback and hardcover.
(All text copyright (c) Sea Raven Press)
Award-winning writer-historian Lochlainn Seabrook is currently the
author and editor of nearly 100 books, including: Abraham Lincoln Was a
Liberal, Jefferson Davis Was a Conservative; Lincoln's War: The Real
Cause, the Real Winner, the Real Loser; The Unholy Crusade: Lincoln's
Legacy of Destruction in the American South; Heroes of the Southern
Confederacy: The Illustrated Book of Confederate Officials, Soldiers,
and Civilians; What the Confederate Flag Means to Me; The Great Yankee
Coverup: What the North Doesn't Want You to Know About Lincoln's War;
Confederacy 101: Amazing Facts You Never Knew About America's Oldest
Political Tradition; Confederate Flag Facts: What Every American Should
Know About Dixie's Southern Cross; Support Your Local Confederate: Wit
and Humor in the Southern Confederacy; Everything You Were Taught About
American Slavery is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!
