Edna Lewis--whose The Taste of Country Cooking has become an American
classic--and Alabama-born chef Scott Peacock pool their unusual cooking talents
to give us this unique cookbook. What makes it so special is that it represents
different styles of Southern cooking--Miss Lewis's Virginia country cooking and
Scott Peacock's inventive and sensitive blending of new tastes with the Alabama
foods he grew up on, liberally seasoned with Native American, Caribbean, and
African influences. Together they have taken neglected traditional recipes
unearthed in their years of research together on Southern food and worked out
new versions that they have made their own. Every page of this beguiling book
bears the