White trash cooking: 25th anniversary edition [a cookbook] - ernest matthew mickler

More than 200 recipes and 45 full-color photographs celebrate 25 years of good eatin in this original regional Southern cooking classic.

A quarter-century ago, while many were busy embracing the sophisticated techniques and wholesome ingredients of the nouvelle cuisine , one Southern loyalist lovingly gathered more than 200 recipes--collected from West Virginia to Key West--showcasing the time-honored cooking and hospitality traditions of the white trash way.

Ernie Micklers much-imitated sugarsnap-pea prose style accompanies delicacies like Tuttis Fancy Fruited Porkettes, Mock-Cooter Stew, and Oven-Baked Possum; stalwart sides like Bettes Sister-in-Laws Deep-Fried Eggplant and Cracklin Corn Pone; waste-not leftover fare like Four-Can Deep Tuna Pie and Day-Old Fried Catfish; and desserts with a heavy dash of Dixie, like Irma Lee Strattons Dont-Miss Chocolate Dump Cake and Charlottes Mothers Apple Charlotte.