Dinner at Miss Lady's: Memories and Recipes from a Southern Childhood

Back when people spent their whole lives in one place, life was all about family and family...
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Author: Luann Landon
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Language: English
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Dinner at Miss Lady's: Memories and Recipes from a Southern Childhood by Landon, Luann

Dinner at Miss Lady's: Memories and Recipes from a Southern Childhood

$288.80

Dinner at Miss Lady's: Memories and Recipes from a Southern Childhood

$288.80
Author: Luann Landon
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Back when people spent their whole lives in one place, life was all about family and family rituals. It was about the whole clan gathering at dinnertime over meals to be remembered forever. Luann Landon's cookbook/memoir transports us to that world of formal midday dinners, closely guarded recipes, and competitive cooks.

Dinner at Miss Lady's takes us back there through the memories, meals, and recipes of one Southern family. Landon recreates the old Southern way of life in comic and tender anecdotes--from the near disaster of losing the tiny dinner bell to revenge exacted by giving the wrong recipe for a cake. This is the world of Landon's extended family: the glamorous and indolent Aunt Clare; the industrious, proud grandmother Murlo; the other grandmother, spoiled, indulgent Miss Lady and her good-humored husband, Judge; and most important, Henretta, the protective cook, able to mend family battles with a perfect blackberry-rhubarb cobbler.

Adding to the vividness of this memoir are menus from those memorable meals, including birthday dinners, homecoming feasts, graduation celebrations, and sumptuous spring and fall parties. Landon shares detailed recipes for over sixty heirloom dishes: Cousin Catherine's Chicken Vermouth with Walnuts and Green Grapes, Beets in Orange and Ginger Sauce, Tennessee Jam Cake, Caramel Ice Cream.

A rich portrait of a life almost lost to us, Dinner at Miss Lady's is a memoir cooked to perfection, one to savor both for its stories and for its food.

Author: Luann Landon
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 05/01/1999
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781565122277


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/19/1999 pg. 67
New York Times 06/06/1999 pg. 31
Booklist 06/15/1999 pg. 1764

About the Author
Landon, Luann: - Luann Landon grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and spent every summer until she left for college in the small town of Greensboro, Georgia, with her extended family. She studied literature at Radcliffe, and has lived since then in France and Nashville. She taught French at Harpeth Hall School in Nashville and has won prizes in various poetry competitions. She lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with her husband.

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