Just received Vivian Howard's cookbook Deep Run Roots

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charley

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It is drop dead beautiful and the recipes are out of sight. I am a huge fan of her TV series A Chef's Life, and this book is as much memoir as cookbook. Very excited to get INto it. ;o)

For info, the title is from her home in Deep Run, NC. How perfect is that!!

 
It is truly one of the most beautiful cookbooks I have ever seen. She writes

beautifully--and poignantly. She has been very candid from the beginning of her career that this part of the world was what she wanted to leave--until she came back.
Wonderful person. I am pretty sure that what you see is what you get--always.

 
As I may have said, you are going to actually read this book first more than

cook from it. That said, her take on "ordinary" ingredients is SO good and unusual, can't wait to do some of it--mustard green gratin maybe for T'giving. It is organized by ingredient--collards, peaches, grits, etc. And the photography is stunning.
She and Ree Drummond have some things in common--both pursued their lives outside their rural roots and then found their "real" calling right back home. Both had VERY interesting careers before "coming home". And both have VERY good production companies for their shows and cookbooks.
Haven't seen anything more about the movie of Ree Drummond's life story--rights have been sold to _________ (Wild). Can't call the name.

 
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