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No your eyes do not receive you, a second Recipe Weekend post, because it's FALL Y'ALL!
Bon Appétit, Y'all: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking, is newly revised and updated with new recipes!
Featuring new recipes and photographs, this revised and updated edition of Virginia Willis’s best-selling culinary classic also features new variations and commentary on the original recipes plus options using healthier ingredients. More than two hundred heritage and new recipes seamlessly blend into a thoroughly modern Southern cookbook.
The daughter and granddaughter of consummate Southern cooks, Willis is also a classically trained French chef and an award-winning writer. These divergent influences come together splendidly in Bon Appétit, Y’all, a modern Southern chef’s passionate and evolving homage to her culinary roots.
Espousing a simple-is-best philosophy, Willis uses good ingredients, concentrates on sound French technique, and lets the food shine in a style she calls “refined Southern cuisine.” Approachable recipes are arranged by chapter into starters and nibbles; salads and slaws; eggs and dairy; main dishes with fowl, fish, and other meats; sides; biscuits and breads; soups and stews; desserts; and sauces and preserves.
Collected here are stylishly updated Southern and French classics (New Southern Chicken and Herb Dumplings, Boeuf Bourguignonne, Fried Catfish Fingers with Country Rémoulade) and traditional favorites (Meme’s Biscuits, Mama’s Apple Pie, Okra and Tomatoes), and it wouldn’t be Southern cooking without vegetables (Cauliflower and Broccoli Parmesan, Green Beans Provençal, and Smoky Collard Greens). More than one hundred photographs bring to life both Virginia’s food and the bounty of her native Georgia.
You’ll also find well-written stories, a wealth of tips and techniques from a skilled and innovative teacher, and the wisdom of a renowned authority in American regional cuisine, steeped to her core in the food, culinary knowledge, and hospitality of the South.
Bon Appétit, Y’all is Virginia Willis’s way of saying, “Welcome to my Southern kitchen. Pull up a chair.” Once you have tasted her food, you’ll want to stay a good long while.
Recipe:
This recipe is perfect for the upcoming holiday season- adults and kids will both love it's savory taste!
Review:
As a long time reader of the magazine, it's great to have all my fav recipes in one place, like the Small Bake Chocolate Pecan Torte, and to check out the new recipes (like the one above, that adds a savory component to a fav dish!). It's the little tweaks on the recipes that take them from down home good to divine, like adding brown sugar to shortcakes! Willis Southern touch shines thru, giving you comfort food that will make your family want seconds of every recipe from the book you cook! If you have someone who loves to cook, this updated cookbook will soon be one of their fav go-to books. Great for new cooks too, so make sure it's on your Christmas gift giving list this year!
About the Author:
Virginia Willis is a Georgia-born James Beard Award–winning cookbook author and French-trained chef. She is a culinary celebrity and social media influencer, public speaker, and columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Virginia is the author of several books, including Fresh Start: Cooking with Virginia, Secrets of the Southern Table: A Food Lover’s Tour of the Global South, Okra: A Savor the South Cookbook, and Lighten Up, Y’all: Classic Southern Recipes Made Healthy and Wholesome. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. For more about Virginia, please visit virginiawillis.com.
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