River Road Recipes I

If you just want to buy one book about southern cooking to complete your cookbook collection, this is the book you want to get. The River Road Recipes is a comprehensive collection of southern style cooking, from seafood gumbo to southern style barbeque steak. The book is very well organized based on ingredient types so you can easily find whatever you would like to try. In addition, it covers many recipes that utilize non-traditional southern ingredients, for example, lobster meat and chicken breast, prepared in southern style, so no matter which part of the country you are from, you would be able to find some ingredients available in your neighborhood to prepare a southern dish using a recipe from this book.

The Textbook of Louisiana Cuisine
River Road Recipes, a must for every collector, presents Louisiana's famous Creole cooking, including recipes for authentic gumbos, jambalayas, courtbouillons, pralines, and more. This classic is in its 70th printing.
"If there were community cookbook Academy Awards, the Oscar for the best performance would go hands down to River Road Recipes." -- New York Times
Featuring:
First You Make a Roux
A Perfect Cup of Cafe Au Lait
How Men Cook
Party Foods
Foods for 50
Spinach Madeline
Garlic Cheese Grits
French Market Donuts
650 Triple Tested Recipes over 262 Pages