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Title: Sylvia's Family Soul Food Cookbook : From Hemingway, South Carolina, To Harlem by Sylvia Woods ISBN: 0-688-16219-3 Publisher: Morrow Cookbooks Pub. Date: 07 July, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Remembering your "roots" and nourishing your "soul"ÿ
Comment: This cookbook is not only a great one to have for the delicious recipes of good, southern home-cooked food, but it is also one that reminds people of their own roots and heritage. Any time a family unites for a meal, there is a great deal more going on than fulfilling that need to kill the hunger. Good food is the only recipe for the soul. Sylvia has included many recipes in this book that my family has enjoyed for many, many years. I may be a bit biased in rating this book because there are some included by my aunt, Neomia Brown, and grandmother, Annie Frazier (who passed a year ago this December). Bless your heart Sylvia and to all of you who enjoy the recipes throughout the book! Thank you Sylvia for reminding us through your own story that good food may not be able to heal a broken heart, but it can at least nourish the soul when families can gather to enjoy it!
Rating: 5
Summary: Real Soul Food At It's Best
Comment: If your idea of soul food cooking is the extra crispy family meal deal at "Popeyes(TM)", Mrs. Woods' cookbook wants to show you the light.
I received this cookbook by accident. I belong to a cookbook club and forgot to tell them I didn't want that month's selection. I've been able to prepare many of Mrs. Woods' recipes with great success. The tuna croquettes are very easy and delicious! They reheated well for lunch the next day too. The smothered pork chops are to die for, and I finally can make gravy my grand mother would have been proud of!
The only trouble I ran into in the entire cookbook were several of her cooking times. In a few recipes, like the "Wednesday Night Special Meat Loaf", cooking took noticeably longer than specified. I know all ovens are different but when the recipe says bake for 1 hour and it took almost 2, that's a big difference. Still, the meat loaf was delicious and worth the wait.
Along with some great recipes, if you enjoy reading your cookbooks, you'll spend lots of engrossed in this one. This cookbook is a human-interest biography with lots of humor and soul.
Rating: 2
Summary: You'd better know something first
Comment: I happen to be in the food industry. And from time to time I like to experiment with various recipes (after all you can never be too good). So I purchased this book to add to the others I have in my collection. Well...after trying some of the recipes in this book I came to the conclusion that if a person is not able to cook or is not familiar with a particular recipe before hand, then this book will not teach you to be the wonderful cook you had hoped for. These recipes must be tweeked in order to be successful. I grew up with soul food, all of my relatives cook soul food and I know of some very good soul food restaurants here in Chicago. But after cooking with these recipes, my 14 year old son asked me to not use this book again and to continue cooking the way I had been...without Sylvia's help (this sentiment was echoed by my boyfriend and my brother). I don't believe these are the same exact recipes that are used in her restaurant, after all why give up your secrets if it's been profitable this long. But I also don't think that people should be fooled into thinking these recipes alone will turn them into soul food experts.
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Title: Sylvia's Soul Food by Sylvia Woods ISBN: 0688100120 Publisher: Morrow Cookbooks Pub. Date: 20 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Black Family Reunion Cookbook : Recipes and Food Memories by National Council of Negro Women ISBN: 0671796291 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 07 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: LaBelle Cuisine: Recipes to Sing About by Patti Labelle ISBN: 0767903145 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Mama Dip's Kitchen by Mildred Council ISBN: 0807847909 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.35 |
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Title: Soul Food: Classic Cuisine from the Deep South by Sheila Ferguson, Shelia Ferguson ISBN: 0802132839 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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