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Summary: Hillarious, and actually has some good recipes
Review: A friend of mine showed me this cook book and I couldn't stop laughing. I grew up in a southern family and this cook book really hit home. (The pictures remind me of Appalachia.)The best part of the cook book are the recipes, some of them are excellent. I am not brave enough to try a few of the recipes like the one for possum but these are the most entertaining ones to read. I really enjoyed the book.
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Summary: Way Down Home...The Real Deal
Review: Amazing book (with a LOVELY lady featured in the cover photo) presenting authentic, mind boggling recipes for dishes like fried squirrel, Clara Jane Vickar's Creamed Tuna Lunch and Freda's Five-can Casserole. It's the real thing (as you'd expect from an author with a name like Ernest Matthew Mickler), and worth owning just for the photos. Pass it around at parties; this is one cookbook guaranteed to get conversation going.
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Summary: Side-Splitting, Lip-Smacking Good Humor
Review: Enjoy tried and true recipes guaranteed to baffle the Yankee in all of us; Ernest Mickler brings the textures and flavors of the Po South to our dining and coffee tables. A winning combination of retold stories and refreshingly un-professional photography complete a pre-packaged feast of non-convenience foods. If your iron skillet is rusty, grab the lard and get ready for some rolicking good fun and food sure to upset your cardiologist...ya'll be sure to see "Fits & Cravings," too!
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Summary: You Are What You Eat? I Am White Trash...
Review: Growing up as a child in the 50s in Texas, I ate most of the foods mentioned in this wonderful cookbook and they are still the foods I crave, the comfort foods I depend on, and the foods that linger in my memory, binding forever in my mind & heart the beloved grandmothers, aunts, and assorted relatives who fixed my favorites and served them with large doses of love! This book brings it all back...enjoy..enjoy...enjoy.
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Summary: Yes, there are really people who eat this stuff!
Review: Having had grandparents who still had an outhouse, I found the photographs in "White Trash Cooking" to be a wonderful reminder of what it was like to be at Grandma's house. And the variety of recipes (many worth a chuckle due to the assembly), from Ice Tea to Kiss Me Not sandwiches will surely give you a view of how the "other half" lives. This book makes me proud to acknowledge my "white trash" roots, because yes, there are really people who eat this stuff!
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Summary: Good eatin', good food,and white trash cookin'
Review: I bought this book years ago when it first came out, and absolute
ly LOVE it: great recipes, great pictures, down-home real food.
Best recipe for biscuits I have ever seen-my book's permanently
stained from use! Even tried the potato chip sandwich, a little
salty, but delish. You don't have to pay an arm and a leg for pretentious, overpric-
ed "country peasant cuisine," you have it right here: polenta's
grits, baby! A lot of these recipes are solid, delicious food,
stuff we grew up on in the Midwest, stuff our granmas used to
make. And if you have ever attended a church social, you'll re-
cognize many of the dishes in this awesome cookbook. It's worth it for the center photograph section, for a nostalgic
touch, for in the rush to urbanize here in Florida, many roadside
fruit and vegetable stands have been zoned out of existence. Up
in the Panhandle you might still find roadside boiled peanut sta-
nds(now THAT'S some great eatin'!), and some produce stands-but
if you can't go there-try this book-you won't regret it. You might approach this book thinking of it as a joke, or in a
condescending approach to white trash(read American Peasants),
but once you start to read the anecdotes and recipes, you gain an
understanding and respect for these tenacious souls. P.S. Try the cheese grits-with Velveeta and Tabasco sauce-that
will wake you up some!
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Summary: White Trash Cookin's the best-ever
Review: I first bought this book years ago, when it first came out-and it
shows: the biscuit page has tea stains all over it-so does the
potato-chip sandwich! The latter is worth a try, albeit a tad
salty, but it IS delish. You absolutely cannot fail to make good
biscuits with their recipe, it is simple, basic, and wonderful.
What they do with food is real simple, and the low-priced version
of "peasant food." It is worth it for the pictures in the center
alone, it doesn't put down white trash, it celebrates 'em! Darn
fine cooks, too. Really delicious summer produce recipes, and
the tomato sandwich idea is one anyone can relish. This book occupies a proud, and well-used, pride of place in my
cookbook collection. Unlike snotty cookbooks where they look
down on the reader, presupposing a well-laden pantry groaning
with esoterica-this is REAL FOOD, REAL SIMPLE. A tribute to all
the white trash who built this country, and really tasty, too. Y'all try it some, hear?
Rating:
Summary: White Trash Cookin's the best-ever
Review: I first bought this book years ago, when it first came out-and it
shows: the biscuit page has tea stains all over it-so does the
potato-chip sandwich! The latter is worth a try, albeit a tad
salty, but it IS delish. You absolutely cannot fail to make good
biscuits with their recipe, it is simple, basic, and wonderful.
What they do with food is real simple, and the low-priced version
of "peasant food." It is worth it for the pictures in the center
alone, it doesn't put down white trash, it celebrates 'em! Darn
fine cooks, too. Really delicious summer produce recipes, and
the tomato sandwich idea is one anyone can relish. This book occupies a proud, and well-used, pride of place in my
cookbook collection. Unlike snotty cookbooks where they look
down on the reader, presupposing a well-laden pantry groaning
with esoterica-this is REAL FOOD, REAL SIMPLE. A tribute to all
the white trash who built this country, and really tasty, too. Y'all try it some, hear?
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Summary: A wonderful cookbook for everyday use - it's family eating
Review: I found this to book to be a handy reference when I just needed something quick to throw together as well as a great source of mind tickling information when I have to plan a formal dinner. Many of us grew up on tomato sandwiches and still eat them all summer standing over the kitchen sink. I believe the photography in the book is fantastic. This cookbook makes you realize that you just can't wait for a family (or church) reunion. Savor the ideas as well as the food.
Rating:
Summary: simply beautiful.
Review: I have spent many many hours reading and re-reading this book. This is a cookbook by it's cover but when you get inside and look at the recipes read the words and the see the wonderful photos you'll see that it's a cultural documentation of some very beautiful and proud people.
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