2011
Book Award
Finalist
Category: Cooking |
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Southern My Way
Simple Recipes, Fresh Flavors
Gena Knox
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Price: $34.95
Printed Casebound | 252 pages
ISBN: 978-0-615-37440-6 |
Summary
Southern My Way: Simple Recipes, Fresh Flavor is a cookbook filled with recipes that reflect author Gena Knox’s upbringing in South Georgia where farming shaped both culture and community. Today, Knox is passionate about sharing her modern take on Southern specialties, which includes lighter, healthier recipes that don’t sacrifice the traditional, rich flavors. With more than 250 pages of seasonal recipes and full color photographs, Southern My Way takes home cooks on a journey through both the South that Gena grew up in and the South she knows today while encouraging readers to keep local foodways and farming traditions alive. Readers will find tidbits of Southern culture as well as traditional Southern recipes that have been freshened with contemporary flavors and the use of local artisan products and streamlined for busier lives. Knox shares her realization that preparing tasty and healthy meals is amazingly uncomplicated when using fresh ingredients, arming home cooks with a collection of standbys that are easy enough for everyday cooking from toasted pecan goat cheese with Tupelo honey to summer gazpacho to gingersnap ice cream sandwiches. The cookbook will be available in major bookstores nationwide as well as online at www.fireandflavor.com, www.amazon.com and at www.zinio.com beginning November 2010. This is Knox’s second cookbook; in May 2008 she published Gourmet Made Simple, which shares her true fervor for food and helps take the challenge out of gourmet cooking for home chefs.
About the Author
Although she pursued a career in landscape architecture after college at The University of Georgia, Knox’s passion for food stayed with her and she became intrigued with the process of plank grilling. She began to make her own planks, which developed into a new career in September 2003 when Knox founded Fire & Flavor with her husband. The company soon grew to offer a complete line of gourmet grilling products. With continued success, Fire & Flavor was named in Inc. magazine's annual Inc. 500 ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the country in 2007. Knox’s culinary instincts and knack for creating approachable dishes led her to author her first cookbook, Gourmet Made Simple, which published in May 2008. Knox’s upcoming cookbook, Southern My Way: Simple Recipes, Fresh Flavor, provides contemporary takes on the traditional Southern dishes that she grew up eating and incorporates the use of local artisan products.
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