Sook's Cookbook: Memories and Traditional Receipts from the Deep South (Updated)

by Marie Rudisill

Book Overview

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. Marie Rudisill first began working on Sook's Cookbook with her nephew, Truman Capote, in the late 1940s to pay tribute to her charming, eccentric aunt, Sook Faulk. After putting the project aside for many years, Rudisill developed the book's methodology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807133795
• ISBN13: 9780807133798
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A Must Have

A definite must for those who truly enjoy REAL southern cooking. The history and stories that go along with the recipes are just outstanding.

marie rudisill's sook's cookbook

a magnificent cookbook filled with her life stories as well as great recipe's. i really love this book.