A guide to hosting Southern-style parties for large or small groups draws on regional traditions to explain how to evence Southern manners and themes, from elegant dinners and afternoon teas to tailgate parties and hoedowns.

Puttin' on the Grits: A Guide to Southern Entertaining

Ford, Deborah

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Audio

The New York Times bestselling Southern girls’ guide to succeeding in life—with a foreword by Fannie Flag. They're called Sweet Potato Queens, Steel Magnolias, Ya-Ya Sisters, and Southern Belles, but at heart they're just plain Grits—Girls Raised in the South! Now, Deborah Ford, founder of Grits® Inc., reveals the code behind the distinctive—and irresistible—style of the Southern woman. Equal parts sweet sincerity and sharp, sly humor, The Grits Guide to Life is chock-full of Southern charm: advice, true-life stories from honest-to-god "Grits," recipes, humor, quotable wisdom, and more. Readers will learn vital lessons, including: how to eat a watermelon in a sundress; how to drink like a Southern lady (sip... a lot); and the real meaning of PMS (Precious Mood Southerner).This charming book is destined to become a bible for the Southern girl—whether born and bred, expatriated, or adoptive—and her many admirers. “Funny, wise, charming, and smart...Grits deserves a place on your shelf between Gone With the Wind and the Memphis Junior League cookbook, and I predict in the years to come it will be passed down to daughter along with the family silver and great-grandmother's lace doilies.”—Fannie Flag, from her foreword to The Grits Guide to Life

Grits (Girls Raised in the South) Guide to Life

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Plume

A guide to hosting Southern-style parties for large or small groups draws on regional traditions to explain how to evince Southern manners and themes, from elegant dinners and afternoon teas to tailgate parties and hoedowns, in a volume complemented by advice on how also to be a gracious guest. Reprint.

Reference

A celebration of the distinctive life and friendships of southern women builds on the success of the award-winning The GRITS Guide to Life and shares tips on how to enhance relationships and an everyday lifestyle with a southern flair. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

Grits Friends Are Forevah

Parenting & Relationships

From the bestselling author of The GRITS® Guide to Lifea manual for catching, loving, feeding, and living with Southern men If you’re living and breathing in this country, chances are you know a male GRITS (Gentlemen Raised In The South), and if you’re Southern yourself (or just wish you were), chances are you love him, bless his heartbut you sure don’t understand him. Does your man: * Know every single word to his school’s fight song? * Love MoonPies, RC Cola, and GooGoo Clusters? * Still think Mama can do no wrong, even though he’s got grandchildren of his own? Whether he lives in a tar-paper shack or a columned mansion, Deborah Ford celebrates and roasts the wonderful, entertaining, and downright crazy male GRITS who Southern women can’t live without.

Bless His Heart: The GRITS Guide to Loving (or Just Living With) Southern Men

A tribute to southern American women features true stories, recipes, humorous anecdotes, wisdom, and advice on such topics as eating watermelon in a sundress, tending a magnolia tree, and drinking like a lady. 50,000 first printing.

The GRITS (Girls Raised in the South) Guide to Life

Hand, Edie

Dutton Adult

A guide to hosting southern-style parties for large or small groups draws on regional traditions to explain how to evince Southern manners and themes, from elegant dinners and afternoon teas to tailgate parties and hoedowns, in a volume complemented by advice on how also to be a gracious guest. 100,000 first printing.

A celebration of the distinctive life and friendships of southern women builds on the success of the award-winning The GRITS Guide to Life and shares tips on how to enhance relationships and an everyday lifestyle with a southern flair. 60,000 first printing.

Grits Friends Are Forevah: A Southern-Style Celebration of Women

A whimsical guide to attracting and making a life with southern men celebrates their virtues and shortcomings, from their devotion to their mothers and local school teams to their messiness and inability to take out the trash. By the author of The GRITSr Guide to Life.

Through exemplary stories and exercises, an expert on the "dark side" of the psyche shows readers how to confront and release their darker, selfish impulses and feelings in order to live more fully and authentically and move closer to others.

The Dark Side of the Light Chasers

Self-Help

Self-Esteem

Riverhead Hardcover

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Puttin' on the Grits: A Guide to Southern Entertaining

Grits (Girls Raised in the South) Guide to Life

Puttin' on the Grits: A Guide to Southern Entertaining

Grits Friends Are Forevah

Bless His Heart: The GRITS Guide to Loving (or Just Living With) Southern Men

The GRITS (Girls Raised in the South) Guide to Life

Puttin' on the Grits: A Guide to Southern Entertaining

Grits Friends Are Forevah: A Southern-Style Celebration of Women

Bless His Heart: The GRITS Guide to Loving (or Just Living With) Southern Men

The Dark Side of the Light Chasers