White Trash Cooking: 25th Anniversary Edition (Jargon)

More than 200 recipes and 45 full-color photographs celebrate 25 years of good eatin in this original regional Southern cooking classic.

A quarter-century ago, while many were busy embracing the sophisticated techniques and wholesome ingredients of the nouvelle cuisine, one Southern loyalist lovingly gathered more than 200 recipescollected from West Virginia to Key Westshowcasing the time-honored cooking and hospitality traditions of the white trash way. Ernie Micklers much-imitated sugarsnap-pea prose style accompanies delicacies like Tuttis Fancy Fruited Porkettes, Mock-Cooter Stew, and Oven-Baked Possum; stalwart sides like Bettes Sister-in-Laws Deep-Fried Eggplant and Cracklin Corn Pone; waste-not leftover fare like Four-Can Deep Tuna Pie and Day-Old Fried Catfish; and desserts with a heavy dash of Dixie, like Irma Lee Strattons Dont-Miss Chocolate Dump Cake and Charlottes Mothers Apple Charlotte.