Review: Tupelo Honey Cafe: Spirited Recipes from Asheville's New South Kitchen

• Author:  Elizabeth Sims and Chef Brian Sonoskus
• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (April 5 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1449400647
• ISBN-13: 978-1449400644

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Product Description

As an early pioneer in the farm-to-fork movement, chef Brian Sonoskus has been creating delicious dishes at the Tupelo Honey Cafe in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, since it first opened in 2000. And from then on, Tupelo's food has been consistently fresh, made from scratch, sassy, and scrumptious.

Heralding in its own unique style of cuisine representative of the New South, the Tupelo Honey Cafe salutes the love of Southern traditions at the table, but like the people of Asheville, marches to its own drum. The result is a cookbook collection of more than 125 innovative riffs on Southern favorites, illustrated with four-color photographs of the food, restaurant, locals, farmers' markets, and farms, in addition to black-and-white archival photography of Asheville. At Tupelo, grits become Goat Cheese Grits, fried chicken becomes Nutty Fried Chicken with Mashed Sweet Potatoes, and poached eggs become Eggs with Homemade Crab Cakes and Lemon Hollandaise Sauce.

Capturing the independent and creative spirit of Asheville, Tupelo has garnered praise from the New York Times, Southern Living, and the Food Network, just to name a few.

My Take:

I am reviewing the ebook edition provided by Net Galley.  Wow...I loved it.  What an awesome cookbook.  The cookbook is well laid out. It is filled with interesting tidbits about the restaurant and Asheville.  I want to go there!  Right now!  And have some southern fried chicken! The recipes are easy to follow and well they just sound yummy!  A definite winner!