The Great Southern Food Festival Cookbook: Celebrating Everything from Peaches to Peanuts, Onions to Okra

By Mindy Henderson and Bryan Curtis

The Great Southern Food Festival Cookbook is a celebration of Southern food and fun with over 500 recipes with information on 100 great events. A food festival is a wonderfully American event that happens in small towns and large cities all over the South, celebrating everything from onions to peanuts, chocolate to chowder. This collection will be both cookbook and travel guide with delicious recipes and festival information for more than 70 festivals from Virginia to Texas. Southern food and Southern parties-or rather Southern parties about Southern food-are the very best kind. Featured festivals include: Chicken and Egg Festival - Moulton, Alabama West Virginia Strawberry Festival - Buckhannon, West Virginia Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival - Warren, Arkansas Shrimp and Grits: The Wild Georgia Shrimp Festival, Jekyll Island, Georgia Suffolk Peanut Festival - Suffolk, Virginia Cornbread Festival - South Pittsburgh, TN Houston Hot Sauce Festival - Houston, Texas

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401603610
• ISBN13: 9781401603618
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.3" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Over 300 dishes from 75 Southern food festivals

Over 300 dishes from 75 Southern food festivals provide a fine representation of modern Southern cooking. Georgia Pecan-Crusted French Toast, Cornmeal-breaded Fried Okra, and Moon Pie Bread Pudding are but a few of the easy dishes blending old and new approaches. Photos highlight some dishes but the majority don't need them.