Book Description
Located at the northern terminus of the Natchez Trace Parkway, the Loveless Cafe remains unchanged in the quaint country charm and good cooking that has made it a landmark in the South since its doors opened nearly 50 years ago.
Nationally acclaimed and frequented by celebrities, world travelers and local appetites alike, the Loveless Cafe serves up award-winning country ham and red eye gravy, real Southern-fried chicken, and Nashville's favorite scratch biscuits with homemade preserves cooked right in the kitchen. The Loveless story has been told the world over, from Gourmet magazine and Bon Apetit to U.S. News and World Report, CBS Television, and People magazine. Come discover Loveless for yourself, and experience southern dining and hospitality at their best.
Southern Country Cooking from the Loveless Cafe captures the laid-back down-home feel of a Nashville legend. Included are over 150 recipes that have made the Loveless Cafe one of Nashville's most beloved restaurants.
Customer Reviews:
Reminds me of Grandma's Cooking.......2007-05-14
I've tried a few of the recipes in this book. I have to say each of them remind me of my Grandmother's cooking. Since she's no longer around, I can again enjoy some of my childhood favorites.
Nothing New.......2007-03-08
There is really nothing new to be gotten from this book or any improvement to any old recipes. Some of the instructions are confusing and some pictures such as the chess pie refer you to page that has a different recipe than what is pictured. Nothing to be learned here with this book. Very disappointing.
Nice addition to my collection...........2006-11-12
If you're looking for the famous biscuit recipe, you won't find it. But you don't have to buy the book to figure that one out. Just peruse the index/t.o.c prior to purchase to see the recipes offered in round two of the Loveless Cafe.
I have the first Loveless Cafe cookbook, from when it was featured on Discovery Daytime 5 or 6 years ago. The lasagna recipe is excellent. From the second cookbook, I've tried the mashed potatoes & macaroni & cheese recipes.... also excellent. However for a family of 4 (such as ours), you're best suited to cut both recipes in half unless you're planning to feed an army. I served half of each recipe for dinner, and had to place the other halves in the freezer for later meals.
PS: In reading the other posts, I seriously doubt there's Gin in the biscuit recipe. Buttermilk is usually the secret ingredient which lends biscuits that 'kick in the background'. The previous best-guess-recipe is missing lard. My best guess for the secret biscuit recipe includes flour, baking powder, salt, crisco from the can, buttermilk, & melted butter.
Deviled Egg Soup?.......2006-09-26
I recently purchased this cookbook and tried the recipe for Deviled Eggs on page 73. How do you stuff an egg with a soupy, runny mess? Obviously this recipe is flawed. I spooned up the mess to taste-test it (or should I say drink it?). It was far too tart and mustardy. Aren't the recipes tested before they're printed? It was the first recipe I tried from this cookbook, but it was such a disaster that all other recipes are suspect for me now. It does contain entertaining pictures and reading material. I just hope that the other recipes aren't as flawed as this one. Also disappointed that the biscuit recipe isn't included.
Authentic Southern Cooking.......2005-10-24
I looked at each page and checked the ingredients to see if they were the same as what my grandmother and aunts use in their dishes. I must say, "Without a doubt there are authentic southern dishes in this book!"
Book Description
"IT'LL MAKE FOR SOME MIGHTY FINE EATING."
--Fort Worth Star Telegram
After the tremendous success of her novel, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, and the beloved movie that followed, author Fannie Flagg received thousands of requests from all over the world asking for recipes from the little cafe of her Alabama childhood that was the model for the cafe in her novel. Now, she joyfully shares those recipes, in what may well be the first cookbook ever written by a satisfied customer rather than a cook! Inside you'll find wonderful recipes for:
* Skinless Fried Chicken * Pork Chops with Apples and Sweet Potatoes * Baked Ham and Pineapple Rings * Baked Turkey with Traditional Cornbread Dressing * Black-eyed Peas * Fried Okra * Creamed Onions * Broccoli Casserole * Southern Cream Gravy * Fried Catfish * Scalloped Oysters * Down Home Crab Cakes * Beaten Biscuits * Corn Pones * Lemon Ice Box Pie * Kentucky Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie * And much more!
The recipes in Fannie Flagg's Original Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook are all for delicious hearty happy food that comes with all sorts of things, from gravies to hot sauces (very often the secret's in the sauce). But most of all this food, and this book, comes with love.
"If you liked her novel, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, and if you liked the movie they made from that novel, you'll like this cookbook....It's funny, just like Flagg."
--Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Recommended...All the traditional dishes are here, along with the author's irreverent, irresistible commentary on Southern cooking and culture."
--Library Journal
Customer Reviews:
thumb's up for Fannie Flagg.......2007-03-23
She has captured the flavor of many dishes from my childhood!!
Down-to-earth recipes.......2007-01-23
Down-to-earth recipes, with easy to follow directions, have made this cookbook one of my favorites. No fancy names or haute cusine -- just good home cooking. Perfect for those who have a "meat and potatoes" family like mine.
Fun to read and fun to cook from.......2007-01-03
The stories are great and the recipes are down home and delicious.
Bull.......2006-08-01
Anyone who thinks southerners eat this stuff is another one. They eat fast food, macaroniandcheese and other prepared stuff. Also and extrawise, I gather from some of the reviewers that this food, contrarytofactwise if they DID eat it, is better than Yankee food. No. Food has gotten better in this country, to be positive for once. Except DownSouth.
DownSouth, you eat in ethnic restaurants. Just like in England.
This is 'THE' Down Home Cooking Companion.......2006-07-13
I have bought a ton of cookbooks and this one has got to be my favorite. When you want comfort food, this is the book. I have now made a lot of the recipies and they are all perfect. Their smothered hamburger steak with gravy and onions is our favorite at the moment. It is better than any restaurant I have been to. The stove top cooked pot roast melts in your mouth. The banana pudding was the favorite of a family reunion. I now have to make it and take it to every occasion. It makes a huge pan though so beware. You also no longer have to 'guess' on the amount of flour to use to make gravy. I grew up making buttermilk biscuits and cream gravy. This book has it it all. The pancakes are better than IHOP. I am also buying this book for friends and newlyweds. Oh, just one more thing. This is not a low fat, low calorie book. But who cares? When you want comfort food, you want the good stuff!
Book Description
Attorney Avery Andrews has returned to her small hometown of Dacus in South Carolina, where the biggest news is a pig on the loose. As she has discovered in the past though, this period of relative calm does not last for long. A native plant rescue is on-going, in which volunteers try to beat the bulldozers about to clear land for a new development. Before the new owner can kick the volunteers off the property, a dead body is found crammed into an abandoned mine hole and the model home and office on the development explode. Add to that one brutal murder and Averys plate is full.
Customer Reviews:
Southern Fun.......2007-06-04
Cathy Pickens packed her Hog Wild book so full of fun I zipped through it like a wild hog with hounds on its heels. Where else do you find a rottweiller's smallest appendage described as a "tater tot tail" and learn that some woman offered to swap "nookie for nitro"? And I hadn't heard "durn your hide" since my granddaddy died. No rural Southerner could read this one without relating. These characters and their thinking and language might sound far fetched to some, but Miss Cathy got it right. I know these people, right down to the little old lady with the big black rotary-dial telephone.
Pickens does it again.......2007-03-31
Instant classic! Hog Wild is a must read for any mystery novel enthusiast! In addition to being suspenseful and thrilling, the book was funny and delightful. I can't wait to read the next installment as Avery continues her career!
Amazing read.......2007-03-30
Wow! What a book! Hog Wild was extremely captivating, and kept me guessing right up until the last page. Mrs. Picken's really captures the "flavor" of the south with her superb writing style and dialect. A wonderful read, I would recommend it to anyone!!
Wonderful "eccentric" characters.......2007-03-19
Hog Wild is the third book in this series by Cathy Pickens, a civil litigator who also teaches law and ethics at the McColl School of Business, Queens University, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Not much is going on in Dacus, South Carolina, so when a pig goes missing, it's big news. Avery Andrews has returned to her hometown to practice law. She's setting up her office and tells Melvin Bertram that she'll keep an eye out for the missing animal. But life gets in the way, as it often does.
Before Avery can open her law office, Maggy Avinger seeks out her help. Maggy's husband, who apparently died from lung cancer, has requested a monument with an epitaph that says Maggy murdered him. Maggy definitely doesn't want either the epitaph or the monument. Avery tells Maggy she'll look into the situation.
Later, Avery attends (at Maggy's invitation) a plant rescue on some land sold to a land developer. Avery is checking to see if the land sale can be cancelled. A body is found in an abandoned mine shaft (death by bullet) and other deaths quickly follow. All the victims received anonymous letters that accuse them of personal shortcomings. Suddenly the small town of Dacus is a hotbed of crime and Avery is on the trail to stop a killer.
I love cozy mysteries and all things Southern. In the North, we call people 'crazy.' In the south they are 'eccentric.' Eccentric people make for better stories. Cathy Pickens' Hog Wild is delightful. It's a fast read filled with quirky characters, a strong independent heroine, and a fun plot.
Armchair Interviews says: Check out the other two novels in this series. If they're as much fun as Hog Wild, you'll be pleasantly surprised.
charming and delightful southern cozy .......2007-03-11
After practicing law at Columbia and Charleston, attorney Avery Andrews returns to her small hometown of Dacus where she is about to open up her solo law practice. Even before she officially opens up, Maggy Avinger comes to her for help. It seems her husband, who died form lung cancer, ordered a contentious monument as his gravestone and on it conscribed an epitaph that says she killed him. Maggie doesn't want the monument but Avery is more worried about the accusation.
Later that week she goes to a "plant rescue" on mountain land that Dot Downing sold to land developer Lionel Shoal. When she returns for another rescue, he is digging in the wetlands that he promised to turn into an environment conservation area. Avery wants to see if there is a way she legally cancel Dot's land sale due to Shoal's misuse of the land. A worker finds the body of a man in an abandoned mine shaft, a bullet in his chest. Later on Lionel is found dead in the same manner as Susie Knight. Both were poisoned and before they died they got a warning letter just like the man who was shot on Lionel's property. Creeping Avery out is she gets the same letter as does a friend of hers.
Cathy Pickens has written a charming and delightful southern cozy that gives readers a look at small town living in the heart of South Carolina. The protagonist is a realistic, independent woman who says what is on her mind and tries to do what she thinks is best for her clients even if they have very little money to pay her. Avery is a good role model for youngsters and the audience will definitely admire her attitude.
Harriet Klausner
Book Description
The hilarious account of one woman's marriage and divorce—Big Easy- style
Set against the colorful backdrop of New Orleans, SOUTHERN FRIED DIVORCE raucously recounts the author's divorce from "That X"—a classic bad boy—and the unpredictable roles he plays in her life afterward. The book opens with his showing up on her doorstep, in mid-Spring, covered in red and green ribbon, smelling of Jim Beam, and bearing a belated Christmas gift—a home security package in the form of a .38 revolver and a brown puppy. After wondering what kind of ex-husband gives his wife a gun, she gives the puppy back and the adventures with that ex-husband and the brown dog, who are soon inseparable, begin.
The hilarious vignettes that ensue include: the rules to Redneck Roulette; post-divorce sex ("Smurfing"); a divorce settlement that includes a bar tab for life; how to teach a dog to drive a Cadillac; getting mugged with her own cutlery; wearing a keg into a football game; instructions on how to cook the best Christmas roast south of the Mason-Dixon line and other fine Southern recipes; and the antics of her infamous ex and the brown dog—two cohorts mythic and so inseparable they performed naked synchronized swimming together at the 1984 World's Fair. Conner weaves together a one-of-a-kind love story that exposes the humility of all human relationships, and shows that the end of marriage is not the end of love.
Customer Reviews:
Humor and Feeling.......2006-06-11
This memoir of a bizarre marriage is both touching and hilarious, and the book offers a wonderful glimpse of pre-Katrina New Orleans at its rowdy best. A great read!
Southern Fried Divorce delivers........2005-09-20
Judy Palmer Conner has a delightfully wicked sense of humor that keeps you laughing as you devour every page of her book, Southern Fried Divorce. She has the ability to capture the true spirit of the most unique of all Southern cities, New Orleans, and proves that love doesn't necessarily end with divorce. Judy's tales of her escapades with "that ex" and the brown dog are hilarious. You will find yourself reading her book again and again, and anxiously awaiting her next volume of "brown dog" tales.
Didn't want it to end.......2005-09-19
There are good books, there are great books, and then there are books that you just don't want to end. Southern Fried Divorce is one you just don't want to end. I have probably read this book 10 times and I laugh and cry with the same intensity every time. Judy Conner's first book is a total smash hit. I have a few books that I never get rid of and this is one of them. She is funny, down to earth, and proves, once again, that love is not always enough to keep two people together.
Loved it!.......2005-08-31
I read this book before I read the Sweet Potato Queen's first book by her sister. Enjoyed both, but Judy's book has it hands down in my estimation. I had to put this line in here because of some of the other reviews I have read. Also, these two gals are so close it is probably hard to tell where the real derivation of the material comes from. At any rate, regarding Southern Fried Divorce, I have read it 3 or 4 times already. There is so much humor here but also so much bittersweet truth. I laughed out loud (snorting was happening here) but I also shed a few real tears as well. This was one of my favorite books in a long time. It is such a quick read, but try to read it slowly. You don't want to miss a word.
Huge let down.......2005-08-24
After reading and listening to all the Sweet Potato Queens books...my expectations for this book of her sisters were very high. Highly disappointing. The woman reading Judys story is horrible. The content very dry in most places and hard to listen to because of it dragging. Would have been better (when listening) if the author would have read it herself. There would have been an authenticity to it. Did not find it funny or really entertaining. Would NOT recommend.
Book Description
The delightful Avery Andrews of Malice Domestic winner Southern Fried comes out of hiding to face a big-city trial-and finds unpleasant surprises...TAKE FOUR PILLS A DAYA chance to be a part of a headline-grabbing case against a drug company has lured attorney Avery Andrews back to Charleston, South Carolina. She agrees to meet with Mark Tilman, a young doctor from her home town who seems to have something on his mind. When he doesn't show, she figures he stood her up and takes comfort in the stilt restaurant's she-crab soup. But it turns out he had a fatal car accident. Something about the crash isn't right, and Mark's father asks Avery to look into his death. Between that and digging up dirt on the wonder drug Uplift, Avery is coming up with more questions than answers.AND DIE...Of course, Avery isn't the only one making headlines. Back in Dacus, her mom is on live television confronting a teenager's dynamite-toting paramour in a hostage crisis at the Burger Hut, Great-Aunt Aletha is mixing it up with the now-toupee-less postman, and the son of a ghost wants vengeance. In short, it's life as usual back in Dacus, while in Charleston, Avery is forced to face demons from her own past..."[A] richly atmospheric second novel....finely crafted."Publishers Weekly"Pickens, a lawyer and teacher with deep roots in the Carolinas, balances the dark and light aspects of the subgenre adeptly, and almost always manages to avoid corn and sentimentality."Chicago Tribune
Customer Reviews:
A great second mystery.......2006-09-25
Jake Baker has seduced Avery Andrews back to Charleston, SC. Not with his fabled charm and seductive wiles but with the chance to sit on the plaintiff's side of the docket in a suit against a large pharmaceutical firm. Uplift is an antidepressant drug, which seems to be a miracle drug for most people who take it. The FDA gave it their seal of approval. But the parent company has the deepest pockets, so they are the ones in court when a man who took Uplift brings his semiautomatic weapons to work and kills a mess of people before he kills himself.
While in Charleston, Avery gets a call from the kid brother of an old romance. Mark Tilman has something very important to talk to Avery about, but he stands her up at the restaurant. Avery is shaken when she finds out that the crash she drove past on her way back to her hotel is where Mark Tilman died. His family wants Avery to look into the death, as they don't believe it was an accident.
Naturally, Avery finds out that the Uplift case has strong ties to the important matter Mark wanted to bring to her attention. There are more deaths. Avery is almost killed, more than once. She does make the necessary connections, and saves Jakes butt as well as giving Mark Tilman's family some sense of justice being done.
DONE GONE WRONG is a delightful second novel. Pickens' sense of place is wonderful, her characters a treat, and the mystery is just close enough to a possible truth to be more than a tad scary. DONE GONE WRONG will do right by you.
Southern Legal Thriller You Won't Want to Miss.......2006-01-02
South Carolina lawyer Avery Andrews is back and this time she's in Charleston, teamed up with an old mentor named Jake Baker and they are suing a major drug company after a forklift operator shot up his workplace after taking one of their anti-depressants. However, getting evidence proving the drug was to blame for the man's mental breakdown isn't going to be easy, because the general opinion is that the drug is the next best thing since sliced bread.
And then Dr. Mark Tilman the brother of one of Avery's old boy friends contacts her with about drug trials, but he's killed in an auto accident and then his house burns down and all of a sudden Avery is in trouble in this story that points fingers at how drug trials can held and how ruthless they can be. It's also a book that is very hard to put down. An excellent legal thriller that you won't want to miss.
Done Gone and Done It Again.......2005-12-03
Cathy Pickens has done gone and written another winner. This little murder mystery is a painless way to learn about the law and drug research-the workings of inner sanctums few of us have access to. Sprinkled in with the suspense and gravity are the quirky characters Pickens is noted for who will bring you smiles and maybe even a laugh or two.
fine southern down home regional mystery.......2005-10-25
Knowing the expert witness was lying, defense attorney Avery Andrews goaded him into saying things which caused a mistrial. Still Avery lost her job and returned home to Dacus to figure out what she is going to do with her life when Charlotte attorney Jake Baker asks her to help him with a class action suit against a pharmaceutical company. The plaintiffs claim that the anti-depressant Uplift made by Perforce Pharmaceuticals caused a man to go on a killing spree before he committed suicide.
While Avery is helping Jake prepare for trial, she agrees to meet with Dr. Mark Tilman who she knows from Dacus. He stands her up but later she learns he was killed in a car accident that might be a hit and run. When his house burns down and a notebook he sent to his girlfriend is given to Avery she begins to think that a drug study he was involved in got him killed. When one of the patients in the study is found dead Avery decides to investigate and almost becomes a victim herself.
Fans of southern down home regional mysteries will want to read DONE GONE WRONG, a legal thriller that paints a frightening pictures of greedy doctors and tainted drug trials. The courtroom scenes are exciting even though Avery is more of an observer than a participant and her inability to forget about the dead doctor and his deceased patient shows that she is a moral person who likes to right wrongs. It will be interesting to see what her next case will be like and if she decides to go into partnership with Jake or open a practice in her hometown.
Harriet Klausner
Book Description
Here is the first regional American cookbook to offer a true taste of the Mountain South. This unique cookbook gathers together more than 180 authentic down-home southern recipes -- full-flavored, no-nonsense dishes more and more Americans are returning to -- and leavens them with memories of food, family, and friendship from some of country music's most beloved performers. "Take a chicken and you kill it/And you put it in a skillet/And you fry it 'til it's golden-brown./That's southern cooking and it tastes mighty nice." -- "Kentucky Means Paradise" by Merle Travis "Straight from the heart and soul of southern cooking. It's a banquet, with background music." -- John Egerton, author of Southern Food; "Simple, honest cooking of the Mountain South. . . . A fresh, entertaining approach to food." -- Atlanta Constitution; "Reeks with authenticity." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Customer Reviews:
Remember.......2007-09-09
This just doesn't have good old recipes, it has wonderful stories to go along with them. Makes a person homesick for that period of time when there were good cooks, good stories, and a loving family.
Anyone from Kentucky will love it
'Briar Hoppin" Cooking.......2007-04-11
I spent my first 58 years in Dayton, Ohio, my mothers' people hailed from Georgetown/Lexington Kentucky- tobacco farmers for the most part. My materanl grandmother could have written this cookbook. It is the best regiional cookbook, authentic. I have ordered 4 more to share with my children.
Shuck Beans, Stack Cakes, and Honest Fried Chicken.......2006-06-30
This is the best book on southern cooking I've ever found. It doesn't need the first part of the title. "The Heart and Soul of Southern Country Kitchens",is however,quite appropriate. These are the foods I grew up with and have missed for years. Thanks to Ronni Lundy's book I've found them again.
The best ever on "real food".......2006-03-02
This cookbook is an absolute delight to read and to use. I grew up on this food in Louisville, KY. My Dad was a city boy and a firefighter and my Mom was a country girl. We lived on a combination of firehouse/country food and there is no more delicious combination of cuisine. Like a prior reviewer, the excerpt about the Cozy Theatre and the Suburban Fish Fry brought back some powerful memories. That fish was the best I have ever had. Ronni Lundy's book is the epitome of real regional food.
mouth watering .......2005-12-06
Ronni Lundy knows southern comfort foods and like any good southerner has a story that goes with it. Her creamed corn, biscuits, pies, and well any dish in this book are wonderful because it is the honest to goodness recipe handed down from generation to generation. I really like her writing style as she shares some good meals and profiles compassionate people. This book will make your mouth water and wish that you were sitting at her table.
Book Description
Attorney Avery Andrews left her BMW behind in Columbia, South Carolina, along with her job at a high-powered law firm. She's come back home to Dacus where the vehicle of choice is a pickup truck with a dog chained in the back. Avery wants time to rethink her career and her life. What she gets is a bossy great aunt drumming up clients and dragging her to social teas. That's how Avery ends up hired by a local factory to help with a messy environmental problem. But she's at Luna Lake when divers find a car containing a corpse because an old high school classmate is trying to get her attention with a half-baked stunt. Now, the discovery of the dead body sweeps Avery into a red hot case....and into the sizzling secrets of small town life, where some people get away with murder.
Customer Reviews:
Southern small town and murder.......2005-09-23
Avery Andrews has recently returned to Dacus, SC, after working in a large law firm in Columbia, SC. She was fired, so she's trying to decide what to do next. In the meantime she's living in the family cabin and doing some legal work in town.
Her client, Donlee Griggs, is accused of murder. While they're dragging the lake for his victim's body, they find a car with a skeleton in it. This has nothing to do with the crime he is accused of. Soon Avery realizes that Donlee has told everyone he is in love with her and makes many spectacular suicide attempts to get her attention.
She is hired by Harrison Garnett, owner of Garnett Mills a local furniture plant, related to environmental concerns. Not long after the environmental investigator arrives in town to check out the plant, there is a fire at the plant destroying records. Now the environmental investigator is back with the feds along. Avery wonders what they're after.
Her other client is Melvin Bertram. He'd left town amidst scandal years ago when his wife went missing. He is back visiting his brother for the holidays. The car found in the lake was his wife's, and he fears the skeleton was her, too. He asks Avery's advice and has her accompany him for questioning.
Can Avery figure out who killed Melvin's wife and who torched Garnett Mills without putting herself in danger?
I really enjoyed this book and look forward to reading many more adventures with Avery. She is such a likeable character. Very down to earth, but a smart lawyer as well. I like the dilemma she's having with staying in her hometown or going to a bigger city again. It really gives us a glimpse of the character and not just her sleuthing skills.
I like all the quirky smalltown characters. They really add to the story.
I highly recommend this book.
A very good "first" mystery.......2005-04-03
This is a regional cozy mystery, set in a small South Carolina town in the foothills of the Appalachians. The main character is Avery Andrews, recently fired from a big city law firm when she starts to attack her own witness (who is perjuring himself). She goes back home to Dacus and moves into her grandfather's summer cabin (not very warm in November). She ends up taking whatever work comes her way, which involves the low life charged with minor crimes and work that comes her way from people who know her and her family. One of her clients owns a factory under investigation by the EPA. In the meantime, a rusted out old car with a body in it brings to light a murder. Does it have anything to do with the EPA case?
This mystery has a lot of Southern small town characters, but with a little more depth than the stereotypes in so many "southern" mysteries. There was some light humor, but I wouldn't call it laugh out loud funny.
I thought this book shows a lot of talent but I didn't feel it was a five-star book -- although I think this author is capable of writing a five-star book. I actually think the book would have been improved if some of the attempts at humor had been taken out and the author had simply written a small town Southern mystery.
Delightful debut! .......2004-10-02
Avery Andrews, fired by her law firm after exploding at her own witness, returns home in disgrace. However, she soon gets involved in legal problems of the locals, which begin trivially but soon find her dealing with arson and murder. Avery deals with a colorful cast of characters, most of whom date back to her own high school days, as she solves her legal cases and realizes she just be stumbling onto a second, unexpected career.
I gave this book five stars because it delivers just what's promised: a small-town regional cozy. If you liked the Maggody series, you'll probably like Southern Fried, although Maggody's characters are so broad they come close to parody. Here they're just this side of southern plausible.
As other reviewers noted, Southern Fried is remarkably professional for a first novel. Dialogue is crisp and believable. Pickens maintains a brisk pace. Transitions are smooth and settings described economically.
As a career consultant, I have to say that I did raise an eyebrow about the heroine's past and future. The only lines that didn't ring true were Avery's musings over being unemployable. It's hard to find a more marketable field than law. Avery was fired but not disbarred. She could do free lance legal research or hang out her shingle anywhere she could pass the bar exam. She could teach business law.
But that's a mere quibble, and Avery's fiery exit from her law firm seems to fit the mood of the book. I hope to read more from this author .
Enjoyable, but not hilarious.......2004-06-22
I keep looking for cozy mysteries that make me laugh like the Stephanie Plue series does. This is the second book that I ordered based on reviews that it was laugh out loud funny. I didn't think so.
That said, this is a good story and Avery is a likable character. I'd enjoy getting to know her in future books.
Southern Through and Through.......2004-06-09
What a delightful little mystery this is, with authentic dialogue, just the right amount of humor, vivid characters who come from all socioeconomic levels, and a very satisfying conclusion. But it did leave me concerned about Avery Andrews eating habits.
Book Description
"Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football." -John Heisman
Obsessed, fanatical, crazed - you bet! The Midwest may love college football, but Tony Barnhart, 1999 Georgia Sportswriter of the Year, reveals that in the South, love just ain't good enough. Southern Fried Football proves that when it comes to college football in the South, the operative word is passion. The 2000 season marks the 120th year of college football in the South, and the fever hasn't lost a degree of its pitch. This book celebrates Southern college football at its finest with: * Stories of regional rivalry-when Alabama and Auburn square off on a Saturday afternoon, families divide and marriages dissolve * The grand traditions of the South's most celebrated dynasties-the Bourbon Barrel of the Kentucky-Indiana game, the Gator Growl, the cowbells of Mississippi State, and, of course, UGA, the mascot with a face only a Georgia fan could love * Profiles of the greatest players, teams, and coaches in southern college football-from the 1898 Immortals of Kentucky to the young stars of today * And, of course, the real center of the action, the avid, flag-flying fans who bring their southern passion for life to the grandstands every Saturday afternoon, but live Southern football seven days a week.
Southern Fried Football is a devoted celebration of the people, places, and moments that make college football in the South more than just a game, or a show of school spirit. South of the Mason-Dixon line, football becomes without question a passion as bold and as heated as good barbecue.
TONY BARNHART is an acclaimed sportswriter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and was recently voted 1999 Georgia Sportswriter of the Year. He has covered college football for ESPN for over six years and has been nominated for an Emmy for his screenplay "The Southern Game," a documentary on Southern college football produced by Georgia Public Television.
Customer Reviews:
Not bad but a little lean in parts.......2004-04-26
I expected a little more from this book, but it wasn't bad. I liked the Georgia stuff since that's Tony's gig, but it was a little lacking on some of the other southern football "powerhouses." If you're looking for a comprehensive look at the most powerful conference in the country, try out the Tailgater's Guide to SEC Football. It's killer. In all, a nice addition to the collection. I give Barnhardt 3.75/5.00.
Not enough story telling.......2003-06-03
While the information collected gives the reader a wealth of facts, I was looking for the stories and story telling Barnhart can weave. Fans love to engage in arguing about great teams and great players while sitting around the living room. This reads more like a dry text book covering southern football.
A little disapointing..........2001-07-06
`Southern Fried Football' is the definitive reference tool for fans of SEC and ACC football. The book has a comprehensive timeline, lists of the greatest Southern teams and players, and a section on coaches.
Tony Barnhart is a great writer, so I was a little disappointed to find so many lists. While the sections on rivalries and game day traditions are very readable, the list of `100 Players That Made A Difference' is not.
More than anything else, traditions are what transform Southern college football from mere sport to religion. This book will give readers a crash course in these traditions.
Defiantly a must have for SEC and ACC football fans, but Barnhart's writing skill is not well represented here.
This one scores big.......2000-11-02
It's always football season in the South, and anyone interested in the game and its pre-eminent spot in Southern culture will find this book indispensable. The author, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's college football editor and ESPN commentator, is the nation's leading expert on the subject, and he doesn't miss anything. There are lists and legends, people and places. And the varied presentation style will appeal to those who like to prop up their feet for awhile, or those who also like to get their sports by channel surfing or clicking and pointing. From John Heisman to Bobby Bowden, Georgia-Yale in '29 to the "Swamp" in Gainesville, Fla., this is an enjoyable tour de force.
"Football Licking Good".......2000-10-19
"Southerrn Fried Chicken" is "must" reading for all diehard college football fans.
Southerners will gobble the information and adecdotes quickly and Yankees will ingest the contents more slowly.
All in all this volume is compendium of what makes footbal a passion and way of life in the South.
As an Alabama gal transplanted to South Carolina who cut her teeth on Bear Bryant and Shug Jordon, I LOVED THIS BOOK!
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Deep-fried, pan-fried, sautéed, and stir-fried; boned and fried, filled and fried; breaded, battered, and Southern-fried. Wherever in the world there are chickens, there is sure to be fried chicken. And where there is fried chicken, there's sure to be Damon Fowler, offering up an international collection of the world's best fried chicken recipes.
Immerse yourself in such world-fried classics as these: From Asia, Chinese Golden Coin Chicken, Siamese Fried Chicken, or Chicken Malabar. From the Mediterranean basin, tender morsels of chicken fried in fluffy Florentine wine batter or Greek Fried Chicken, marinated in wine and a heady blend of spices. From South America, spicy, crunchy Chicharrones de Pollo--marinated chicken fried in crisp cornmeal breading. And naturally, this dyed-in-the-wool Southerner offers up an entire chapter on that subject nearest his heart, Southern fried chicken.
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No Gimmicks, Just Good Information.......2006-03-07
Well, done. Recipes cover everything from General Tso's to Southern Cold Picnic Chicken and gravy. The best book I've found to correct the approach of northerners to crispy, fried chicken, WITHOUT THE CORNFLAKES! Lard is the secret and deep frying outdoors is the logical conclusion. Do it for the chicken. After all, how many people in your family are known for their deep-fried chicken? It could be you.
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New York's 50 Best Places to Eat Southern: Where to Find Hoppin' John, Grits, Barbecue, and Fried Everything
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Hailed as the Bible to Bible Belt cooking in New York City, this sassy, slangy guide will whisk you away on a culinary quest for grits and greens, hog maws and hoe cake--from the plantation to the trailer park--without ever leaving the Concrete Jungle.
Whether you're a hard-core Dixielander or a world-weary city slicker, "Eating Southern in New York City: New York's 50 Best Places to Find Hoppin' John, Grits, Barbecue, and Fried Everything" will give you an insider's look into the previously-unexplored world of authentic Lowcountry and Soul, Cajun and Creole--and beyond--in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.
Southern transplants Bruce Lane and Scott Wyatt have been getting their down-home fix in New York City since 1990.
Customer Reviews:
A God-send for Wayward Southerners in the Big Apple!.......1999-06-02
Any southerner living in New York City will appreciate this lively, well-written restaurant guide that can soothe all your cravings. Soul food, bbq, Louisiana cooking, and any other country foodstuffs you can think of are right here in NYC (believe it or not!), and these southern-born boys have taste-tested all of them for us and come up with some real winners. If you find your stomach churning for grits and sweet potato pie the way I do, this book should be at your side always.
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