On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:26:59 -0800 (PST), Brawny >
wrote:

>On Jan 21, 4:28*pm, Christine Dabney > wrote:
>> >Do you have Mama Dip's books among your collection?
>>
>> No I don't. *Are they good? *
>
>Mamma Dip WROTE the book on southern cooking! Her restaurant is
>deserves to be "stood in line" for!

Oh, okay. Guess I will have to find her books. Like I need more
cookbooks...but need has nothing to do with this..LOL.

I forgot that I had even more southern cookbooks. I have one by
Joseph E. Dabney (no relationship to me, unless it is very distant)
called Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine. Another one by
Sarah Belk, called Around the Southern Table. And by John Martin
Taylor, The New Southern Cook.

And also the wonderful volume on Southern Cooking from the Time-Life
series Foods of the World. That one was by the author Eugene Walter,
who is mentioned by Edna Lewis in her essay. I was still in nursing
school, or maybe still in high school when that volume came out, and
it opened my eyes beyond the food of my native Richmond, VA.

This is not to try to outdo anyone on having more southern cookbooks,
but just that I am fascinated by the culture and food of the southern
states and I collect the cookbooks and other books about food from
this region.


Christine