Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South: An Informal History

by Joe Gray Taylor

Book Overview

A lively, informal history of over three centuries of southern hospitality and cuisine, Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South traces regional gastronomic habits from the sparse diet of the first settlers on the Atlantic shore, who learned from necessity to eat what the Indians ate, to the lavish corporate cocktail parties of the New South.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807110132
• ISBN13: 9780807110133
• Release Date: April 1982
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Informative and fun Southern history

This book focuses on domestic life in the South during the period of European settlement. It makes clear that many of the white farm families would not have survived had they not had the cooperation and instruction in practical living techniques generously provided by their native neighbors. I was amused at how many of the "Southern" traditions of food and cooking that I grew up with are really Native American traditions that were adopted by the settlers. Gray is an entertaining writer who has gathered many facts that may appear trivial, but which help to develop a detailed picture of what life was like on the frontier when the frontier was east of Atlanta.