Fannie Flagg's Original Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook

This is the most used cookbook I own, all recipes are excellent! Highly Recommend!

Love this book!!!! All the recipes takes me back to the south and my Aunt Mae's Sunday Supper's that I have always enjoyed. It also takes me back to easy living and being with family and neighbor's that care about eachother. I love and recommend anything that Fannie Flagg has written and I hope she continues to create more great reading.

I bought this book over 10 years ago because I was such a huge fan of the movie (and still am!). I also love to cook, and consistently, I pull this cookbook out more than any other. As others have recognized, this book contains those recipes that you wish you had from your own great-grandmother, and are all very practical but delicious. Even if you never mixed up a single recipe, the humor and wonderful old photographs... Read Full Review

Lots of folk have read "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe," by Fannie Flagg. Even more have seen the movie, "Fried Green Tomatoes" . I read Ms. Flagg's cookbook with delight, anticipation, more than a few hunger pangs, and a profound sense of relief that somebody, somewhere had the good sense to preserve these fine old dishes of the deep South and pass them on. Her recipe for "Chicken'n'Dumplings" matches the faded... Read Full Review

I was born/raised in the south and moved north 13 years ago. After moving into "yankee country" I began to search for a southern cookbook which had recipes I remembered from my childhood: buttermilk pancakes,fried chicken,barbecued chicken,southern cream gravy,fried green tomatoes,fried okra,and banana pudding just to name a few for starters. I wanted the cookbook to have been authored by a southerner, that way I knew the... Read Full Review