A personal documentary of men and women whose lives show that the south may be the most likely soil for the ideal of racial equality finally to take root.

A Mind to Stay Here: Profiles from the South

Egerton, John

MacMillan Publishing Company

This lively, handsomely illustrated, first-of-its-kind book celebrates the food of the American South in all its glorious variety—yesterday, today, at home, on the road, in history. It brings us the story of Southern cooking; a guide for more than 200 restaurants in eleven Southern states; a compilation of more than 150 time-honored Southern foods; a wonderfully useful annotated bibliography of more than 250 Southern cookbooks; and a collection of more than 200 opinionated, funny, nostalgic, or mouth-watering short selections (from George Washington Carver on sweet potatoes to Flannery O’Connor on collard greens). Here, in sum, is the flavor and feel of what it has meant for Southerners, over the generations, to gather at the table—in a book that’s for reading, for cooking, for eating (in or out), for referring to, for browsing in, and, above all, for enjoying.

Southern Food

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Regional & International

KNOPF

Random House Value Publishing

Speak Now Against The Day

Traces the development of American society through descriptions of the lives of nine generations of the Ledford family

GENERATIONS

History

Americas

Touchstone

Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South

Shades of Gray: Dispatches from the Modern South

LSU Press

Hailed as an instant classic when it appeared in 1987, John Egerton's Southern Food captures the flavor and feel of what it has meant for southerners, over the generations, to gather at the table. This book is for reading, for cooking, for eating (in and out), for referring to, for browsing in, and, above all, for enjoying. Egerton first explores southern food in more than 200 restaurants in eleven southern states; he describes their specialties and recounts his conversations with owners, cooks, waiters, and customers. Then, because some of the best southern cooking is done at home, Egerton offers more than 150 regional recipes, including barbecue, spoonbread, muscadine jam, and key lime pie, with informative and amusing information about each one.

Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History

The University of North Carolina Press

The compelling story of the earliest calls for desegregation and racial justice in the South. "Make room on your library shelf . . . for John Egerton's magnificent Speak Now Against the Day. His book is a stunning achievement: a sprawling, engrossing, deeply moving account of those Southerners, black and white, who raised their voices to challenge the South's racial mores. . . . [This] is an eloquent and passionate book, and . . . one we cannot afford to forget.--Charles B. Dew, New York Times Book Review "A rich and inspiring story. . . . [Egerton] has uncovered a buried treasure.--Studs Terkel "[A] superb book, measured but eloquent.--Dan T. Carter, Washington Post Book World

Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Generations: An American Family

Regional U.S.

Univ Pr of Kentucky

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