Butter Beans to Blackberries: Recipes from the Southern Garden

This recipe book of Southern recipes and lore will warm your heart, as well as your tummy. I have been looking for something like it for a long time and, bingo, this is it. Written with humor, love of food and the South, it will become a fixture on my shelf for books I will reach for again and again.

Book was delivered in "new" condition in a speedy manner. I was really impressed with the price and the product.

This is a cookbook you read. Every word!It has also reminded me that there are no meat-and-three cafes in all of California that I can find. And all the cornbread tastes like cake. Somebody is missing the boat here. You would make a good living if you opened this type of restarant. You could use this cookbook to get started!

This is the first book of Ronni Lundy's that I read and it inspired me to find and buy all the rest of her books. If you have Southern roots or know anyone who has, the stories and recipes will be even more meaningful to you. The South produces some of the best vegetables in the country and Southerners of all races have been developing ways to best showcase them. Buy this book for the recipes but keep it for the stories too.

The recipes in "Butterbeans to Blackberries" are good enough to make bona-fide vegetable haters ask for a second helping, but this cookbook is so much more than a compilation of tasty recipes. Lundy is a Southerner who not only loves cooking and knows all those hidden secrets of Southern cooks, but she weaves the recipes around the unique people who make the South a special place. Her stories of the characters she runs into are every bit as delicious as the recipes. She's an authentic and fresh voice out of the South and her next move should be a novel of some of those characters (with a few new recipes thrown in for good measure!)