The Southern Foodways Alliance Community Cookbook

Shop Notes: When I need a solid recipe for a Southern dish, my personal copy of this cookbook is my first stop.  It's a veritable what's-what of Southern cuisine. The Southern Foodways Alliance has curated an excellent collection of recipes from notable church and community cookbooks, noted chefs, and popular Southern cookbook authors and artisanal food producers.  It's a bit of a mish-mash, but a really useful and delicious one. From the Publisher: Everybody has one in their collection. You know―one of those old, spiral- or plastic-tooth-bound cookbooks sold to support a high school marching band, a church, or the local chapter of the Junior League. These recipe collections reflect, with unimpeachable authenticity, the dishes that define communities: chicken and dumplings, macaroni and cheese, chess pie. When the Southern Foodways Alliance began curating a cookbook, it was to these spiral-bound, sauce-splattered pages that they turned for their model.Including more than 170 tested rec