Southern Cooking

Recommend for all cooks! Great gift. As good for Southern food as Julia for French food.

My Mom and Grandmother used this book. I have really enjoyed reading it again. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in american cooking history.

The Atlanta Journal called this book, 'The standard by which regional cooks have been measured since 1928.' This book was first published in 1928, and then had a major upgrade in 1941. It has been in almost continuous printings since then with probably 200,000 copies having been printed. In style it's not done like today's cookbooks. The book and each chapter start with some general information. Read it. After she tells you once, she presumes that you know what she says and doesn't repeat it. After that come the recipies, 1,300 of them. Each recipie has been tested, but they tend to be rather terse, enough to give you the information you need, but not a lot of chit chat. Just recipies. Likewise no pretty pictures, just recipies, thirteen hundred of them. 1300 Southern recipies -- Where else would you get instruction on how to butcher, dress and bake an opossum.

I grew up with my Nonna Lucia's wonderful Italian cooking (ingredients FRESH from Arthur Avenue) but the mouth-watering down-home recipes in Mrs. Dull's book (NOT dull at all!) make me wanna stay home and cook em/eat em all!

I first ran across a copy of this cookbook 25 years ago in a used book store. This new, reprint edition is even nicer than the original, with a great new cover, high-quality binding and paper, etc. First rate. But the main appeal to "Southern Cooking" are the timeless recipes by the famous Mrs. Dull. It is truly a slice of Americana. I've tried many of these recipes, and though they are old-fashioned, they still taste great. I can especially recommend "Mother Dull's Tea Cakes," the gingerbread recipe, and many of the cakes. The writing style is a little loose and it helps to have some knowledge of cooking, but as the notes explain, if you read the section introductions Mrs. Dull gives good instructions. In fact, I think her instructions are cake baking are about the most helpful I have ever had. Her personality shines through on every page. This is a classic book at a great price, and it's great to have the 1941 edition back in print. They did a great job. You'll want to buy several copies to give as gifts.