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Cook the Book: 'Southern Belly'

Occasionally what looks at first glance to be a conventional guidebook transcends the genre in surprising ways. John T. Edge's Southern Belly: The Ultimate Food Lover's Companion to the South is just such a read. Yes, you can use it like the discerning guide to eating in the South that it most assuredly is. But Southern Belly is also a book filled with so much heart, soul, and good writing that it demands to be read cover to cover like some John Grisham page-turner. Edge blessedly doesn't shy away from discussions of race and class, and the result is a narrative that's compellingly thoughtful and real. It's not a cookbook per se, but Edge manages to judiciously sprinkle enough recipes...

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73 Comments | Posted by Ed Levine, September 10, 2007 at 3:30 PM
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