Southern Cooking by Mrs.S.R.Dull Foreword by Damon Lee Fowler

It's an emotion: I have close to me the Bible in terms of Southern food: Southern Cooking by Mrs.S.R.Dull Foreword by Damon Lee Fowler.

At first looking at the beautiful, warm and colored cover, what you notice the most is Mrs.Dull and her wonderful, beauty smile while she was baking some cookies.

This book, with more than 1300 traditional recipes is not just taken in great consideration by every person in love for great food, but it's the basis for every other cookbook in the USA and in particular in the South.

The story of this wonderful, sweet lady, Mrs. Dull is incredible for the final results. She became a great cook for case and necessity as very often happens.

She married a widow with a lot of children six in total and when her husband fell sick she was the one who took care of everyone. Cooking and baking she started to understand the tricks of this field and full-time job. At first it was just a story of selling some cakes for some money but when people discovered that, well, Mrs Dull's food was so delicious and she was so talented they thought: why not let her work seriously? And so she became a caterer. Not only: she was hired by the Atlanta Gas Light Company starting to speak about food in public events. It was another launch in another Olymp because the Atlanta Journal offered her to become editor of the Home economics page for their Sunday magazine edition. Unbelievable? All true!
It was a great success and Mrs.Dull continued to work, writing about new recipes, kitchen tips, advice and food for a long time, "going in pension" at 82 years old from the Atlanta Journal.

Why is it so important Southern Cooking?
Personally I can tell you that: via the net I downloaded in the past wagons of old American cookbooks and the reason is just one: recipes are better, less caloric, more genuine and ingredient the old fashioned-ones, more naturals.

Substantially Southern Cooking is important also because we can see a real picture of the food consumed in the South during the beginning of the XX century.

Mrs.Dull lived in a  period of great changes, but what it remained true was that people trusted her because she was absolutely perfect and sure of what she was doing or what she was telling, she experienced it in first person and it helped of course, plus she was exigent and she pretended just the best from herself and from...food!

Go for this book without any kind of hesitation, because all these recipes are more than accurate, because Mrs. Dull is synonymy of excellence and quality and every chapter you will see will be a delicious discovery!

You will also find menus for feasts and special occasions suggested by Mrs.Dull like also in Table Service chapter important tips, most of them I didn't know at all.

Mrs. Dull won't leave out anything from this book, and there are also included new recipes published in the edition of 1941.

Soups, cocktails, meat, cakes, vegetables, salad, bread, and much much more you will find all the answers to your little or big exigencies and the one of your family.

Personally I want to try as soon as possible her recipes with sweet potatoes and apples! I am a passionate of sweet potatoes and apples :-)

I thank so much! Georgia University Press for the physical copy of this beautiful and sunny cookbook!


Anna Maria Polidori