My Southern Table Cookbook

NOW AVAILABLE!

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Reviews

“Southerners relish good food and good stories. Packed with mouth-watering heirloom Southern recipes and beautiful photographs, Lana Stuart’s My Southern Table: Recipes from a Georgia Kitchen is more than a cookbook. It is a lovely collection of soul-warming food memories, stories of the great cooks in Lana’s family, and how food builds family and community at the table.”

—Nathalie Dupree, James Beard award-winning cookbook author

“There are so many times when all I want is to be in the small, loving kitchen of my grandmother. She’d be at the stove, wearing an apron way too frilly to cook in, making a meal fit for a Southern king. I miss her and the food she fed us in a way that still hurts inside. Turning the pages of My Southern Table is sure to be a comforting fix for the longing that lives inside grandchildren raised in the South. Only a truly talented woman could master a photography-worthy 10-layer chocolate cake with layers almost as thin as the spreader on a butter knife. And just like my grandmother Tom would have done, Lana then beautifully smothers that cake with beloved boiled icing. Stuart’s recipes seem to turn back time and prop open the screen door that leads to some of my most scrumptious memories.”

—Rebecca Lang, Southern Cooking Authority and Author of 8 cookbooks

“Just looking at the cover of My Southern Table made my mouth water and at the same time transported me right back to childhood and the love and comfort found in my family’s kitchen. Lana Taylor Stuart’s recipes are both delicious and timeless – and her genuine warmth and South Georgia heritage shine through on each page. And while every dish in her book stands out as superb, it is her ‘Chocolate Little Layer Cake’ – that absolutely magnificent confection made with ten layers of moist cake and silky, rich icing – that earns her a golden culinary crown.”

–Johnathan Scott Barrett, author of Rise and Shine! A Southern Son’s Treasury of Food, Family & Friends, Cook & Tell: Recipes and Stories from Southern Kitchens, Cook & Celebrate: A Collection of Southern Holiday and Party Culinary Traditions (Mercer University Press), and the upcoming Southern novel, Ship Watch (Moonshine Cove Publishing, Inc. December 2023)

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Book Info

I was born and raised in south Georgia and grew up in a family where the kitchen was the heart of our home. The smell of chicken frying, the taste of freshly churned ice cream, the laughter and conversation that filled the air as our family gathered around the dining table—these are the cherished memories that have shaped me and my new cookbook, My Southern Table: Recipes from a Georgia Kitchen. 

Readers will find dozens of “heritage recipes” throughout the book. These are the recipes I learned from my mother, grandmothers, and aunts who were all accomplished home cooks. And, I’ve also created new recipes that reflect the continuing evolution of Southern cooking. This is Southern food as I know it today—vibrant, diverse, and ever-changing.

You’ll find amazing recipes like:

• Baptist Church Party Punch
• Copper Pennies
• Ham Bone Soup
• Shrimp and Grits
• Watergate Salad
• Chicken Jallop
• Chocolate Little Layer Cake
• Russian Tea

A full-color photo and clear, easy-to-follow directions accompany each of the 246 recipes. Notes and tips on nearly every page help ensure your success in the kitchen.

Each recipe in this book carries a piece of my heart and tells a story from my life. They are the recipes I turn to when I want to celebrate, to comfort, to share love, and to create new memories with my family and friends. Now, it’s your turn to bring these recipes to life in your kitchen and to weave them into your own stories.

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