Sook's Cookbook: Memories And Traditional Receipts From The Deep South

Sook's Cookbook brims with delicious, uniquely southern recipes such as green olive jambalaya, watermelon rind preserves, and poinsettia cake, as well as classic buttermilk biscuits and lemon meringue pie. In his foreword, Gourmet contributing editor John T. Edge calls Sook's Cookbook "one of the most compelling regional cookbooks of the latter half of the twentieth century." He celebrates Marie Rudisill's character and spiritfrom her sassy appearances on the Tonight Show, where she became known as the "Fruitcake Lady," to her deep appreciation of the people and the old southern ways she knew and loved in Monroeville, Alabama. Much more than a cookbook, these pages pay homage to a small town in the Deep South and the intriguing people who made it come alive.