Now the most outstanding recipes that have ever appeared in "Canadian Living "have been compiled with exciting new recipes and fabulous food hints to create this beautiful full-colour book. Inside "The Canadian Living Cookbook "are more than 525 delicious, carefully tested recipes illustrated by over 225 irresistible photographs. Enticing theme menus highlight the regional foods of Canada and dozens of helpful hints and serving suggestions make this a book that no Canadian cook will want to be without.

    This book is for reading, for cooking, for eating (in and out), for referring to, for browsing in, and, above all, for enjoying. Egerton first explores southern food in more than 200 restaurants in eleven southern states; he describes their specialties and recounts his conversations with owners, cooks, waiters, and customers. Then, because some of the best southern cooking is done at home, Egerton offers more than 150 regional recipes, including barbecue, spoonbread, muscadine jam, and key lime pie, with informative and amusing information about each one.

    This is the only one of Claiborne’s cookbooks to focus exclusively on the South. It was, he readily admitted, his most personal book.As John T. Edge and Georgeanna Milam note in their foreword, Claiborne, a native of the Mississippi Delta, had a love of southern food that ran deep and wide, spanning Cajun, Creole, Tex-Mex, and other regional cuisines. Included are more than three hundred favorite recipes--from Claiborne’s own kitchen, from his mother’s Mississippi boardinghouse, and from some of the South’s best cooks, including Bill Neal, Edna Lewis, and Paul Prudhomme. He introduces many of the dishes with comments and notes on their history, their evolution over the years, and his favorite versions; he also includes instructions on preparation and serving. Throughout, Claiborne remembers the many southern classics of his childhood, such as fried catfish and beaten biscuits and Smithfield ham.“Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi and environs,” wrote Claiborne, “and [to] be regaled, as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing (that’s what we call vinaigrette sauce), and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.”