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A home cook’s guide to one of the most diverse – and delicious – cuisines, from a James Beard Award-winning author and culinary historian.

‘Our cuisine, with its grits and black-eyed peas, crab cakes, red rice, and endless variations on the staple foods of the region, casts a spell that, if you’re lucky, gets passed down with snapping string beans at the table and chewing cane on the back porch.’ – Michael W. Twitty

From the Louisiana Bayou to the Chesapeake Bay, more than 260 of the region’s most beloved dishes. Twitty explores the broad culinary sweep that Southern history and its many cultures represent. Recipes for breads and biscuits, mains and sides, stews, sauces, and sweets with insightful headnotes and clear instructions. Discover iconic dishes and lesser-known specialties: Chicken and Dumplings, She-crab Soup, Red Eye Gravy, Benne Seed Wafers, Hummingbird Cake, and Mint Juleps appear alongside Shrimp Pilau, Chorizo Dirty Rice, Sumac Lemonade, and Cajun Pig’s Ears Pastry.

A masterful storyteller, Twitty’s deeply researched essays celebrate the region’s “multicultural gumbo” of influences from immigrants from across the globe. 

Expansive, authoritative, and beautifully designed. A tome to treasure.

Details
Hardcover / 432 pages
Published 15 October 2025

PHAIDON