Sometimes, it’s just one recipe. Jean Anderson compiled 200 recipes for A Love Affair with Southern Cooking: Recipes and Recollections. Many were little-known but much-loved specialties of small communities—such as Surry County Sonker, from a small part of North Carolina’s Piedmont foothills—a fairly standard, pie pastry-based fruit cobbler with a terrific name. Reading Anderson’s book should make even the most devoted Yankee long to sink teeth into Southern fried okra or brown sugar pie (Anderson traces her lifelong love of Southern cooking to this pie, served to her five-year-old self in the basement cafeteria at Raleigh, N.C.’s Fred Olds Elementary).
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Sometimes, it’s just one recipe. Jean Anderson compiled 200 recipes for A Love Affair with Southern Cooking: Recipes and Recollections. Many were little-known but much-loved specialties of small communities—such as Surry County Sonker, from a small part of North Carolina’s Piedmont foothills—a fairly standard, pie pastry-based fruit cobbler with a terrific name. Reading Anderson’s book should make even the most devoted Yankee long to sink teeth into Southern fried okra or brown sugar pie (Anderson traces her lifelong love of Southern cooking to this pie, served to her five-year-old self in the basement cafeteria at Raleigh, N.C.’s Fred Olds Elementary).