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The Lee Bros Southern Cookbook Stories and Recipes for Southerners and Wouldbe Southerners Matt Lee Ted Lee 9780393057812 Books

This is the Lee brothers first book and it is excellent, however their third book Charleston Kitchen is my favorite.
The brothers prose is enjoyable to read and very informative.
At this point I've tried a few recipes from this book and quite a few more from Charleston Kitchen and they've all been very good to excellent.
My favorite Southern cookbook remains Edna Lewis The Taste of Country Cooking which I've had since around 1980 and am on my second copy.


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The Lee Bros Southern Cookbook Stories and Recipes for Southerners and Wouldbe Southerners Matt Lee Ted Lee 9780393057812 Books Reviews

Love this cookbook! These brothers stories along with their recipes are a great read. I recommend this cook book if you enjoy actually reading your cook books and not just for recipes.
An absolute delight! I'm new to South Carolina and bought this for a treat. I have learned many things about the southern culinary experience. It has even piqued my interest in cocktails....Looking forward to cooking some of these recipes and finishing reading the book. Thank you to the Lee Brothers - well done and a great read.
Many more recipes than their later book "simple fresh southern" . Recipes for grits , okra, gumbo and pecan pie . The pictures are not so lovely. I plan to use his as a reference , and simple, fresh for most family meals
wow, what , for them to be southern boys i was expecting a lot more.
Love this cook book. It is one of my regular go to's. Both for fun, and the recipes. I have actually developed a craving for Red Man Stew.
This cookbook is incredible -- an anthology of Southern cooking, with real, genuine recipes that you may have a hard time finding elsewhere in the North. I am not Southern, but my friends from the South almost all comment on how authentic the recipes are when I show them this cookbook. My only qualm is that the cookbook is so large, that there are not many photos. Since I am unfamiliar with a large number of the recipes in the book, I would appreciate more photos, so that I have a better idea of how things turn out and what I am dealing with. (Also, who doesn't love photos in cookbooks?)
`The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook' by South Carolinian / New Yorkers, Matt Lee and Ted Lee weighs in at the top of my list for best `practical' go to book for Southern cooking. That approbation is with the understanding that I have not finished looking yet, but this one is a strong early candidate. At the moment, the best competition is the far more general `James Beard's American Cookery'.

One may guess from the number of restaurateur's endorsing blurbs on the back jacket that our two Southern gentlemen are not themselves restrauranteurs, and in direct competition with Bobby Flay, Mario Batali, and especially fellow southerner, Frank Stitt. The brothers Lee are actually the L. L. Bean for purveying southern cuisine staples, beginning with their dear boiled peanuts. Their `day job' also happens to be culinary travel writers for many of the bigger names in New York culinary journalism such as `The New York Times', `Travel + Leisure', `Martha Stewart Living', and `Food and Wine'. They also have an hour show on Martha Stewart's Sirius Radio channel. Which is surprising, as there is no evidence of any reference to Ms. Martha in the acknowledgments, introduction, or index.

Since these gentlemen are neither restaurateurs nor professional chefs in any capacity, and learned how to cook out of personal necessity, the title of the book reflecting a `personal' cookbook is probably as accurate as one may hope. The book is composed exclusively of recipes the boys have cooked themselves, or cribbed from friends or relatives' cooking. This source is broadened and made more professional by the fact that the recipes have been collected and edited for the last ten (10) to twelve (12) years with an eye to professional publication in these very same august publications.

My overall impression of the book is that while our lads range pretty widely across `the old south', from Virginia to southern Florida to Cajun country to the Ozarks, they stay true to traditions of those sources while still making all recipes doable in a modern American kitchen. This means that the very traditional Carolina barbecue will rival those done in a smoker, but no smoke is needed to cook their recipe. Of course, their center of gravity is in the Carolina low country, so most recipes are very similar to those from the same region, such as Paula Deen and Mrs. Wilkes of Savannah and James Villas (and mother). And, their book is a superior reference for practical Southern cooking than either of these three, due to a combination of authenticity, range, and variety of approaches to the same dish. I am surprised, however, at the appearance of some dishes such as chow-chow and hot bacon dressing which I have always associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine. But there they are! I guess pickled vegetables and bacon fat are pretty universal in American cookery.

This last comment needs exegesis. For several recipes, the boys give us two different versions of a basic, important recipe, such as gumbo or braised collard greens. The first and more traditional recipe is the `Sunday' version, requiring several hours to cook to a tee. The second version is the `Tuesday' version which is much faster, but with a result which comes close to the longer result. I think it's a minor point, but I find it interesting that the boys' local farmers market opens on Tuesday, thus creating the best weekday to do recipes requiring fresh, traditional ingredients.

Aside from range and `options', the Lees also give us more elaborate recipes than Deen or Wilkes. They also give us a lot more `local color' in sidebars on locations, ingredients, and the provenance of recipes. This is the basis of their subtitle that declares that the book has `Stories and Recipes for Southerners and would-be Southerners'. I must point out, however, that for in depth research on important southern dishes, the august Jim Villas' articles on classic Southern dishes, especially in `Stalking the Green Fairy' are superior essays on the issues regarding a certain basic dishes such as the pimento cheese spread and Brunswick stew.

The thing which had me fall in love with this book is the emphasis the authors gave to auxiliary dishes and preparations such as beverages, relishes, spreads and dips, and appetizers. Just as in computer system design and virtually every other major human endeavor, the secret to great productivity is `modularity', the ability to make preparations that will store well and serve in many different roles. One of the more useful aspects of the book are the little asides showing one how to make good use of various leftovers. One of my favorite discoveries in this book was a recipe for (country) ham pate, something my mother made for me when I was in grade school, and mysteriously stopped making when I got to college. One minor point on which someone more expert than I should take issue is the lumping together of American country hams and European cured hams such as Proscuitto. My hunch is that while there is some family resemblence between them, the differences are important as well. I believe they are not interchangeable in many recipes, certainly not in classic Italian recipes.

Another valuable aside is the `What to Drink' recommendation associated with all the `entrée' recipes. This is not limited to wine, and it is certainly not limited to either European or California wines. It covers the entire range of potables from sweet iced tea to beer to sour mash whiskey.

My favorite discovery is the recipe for the buttery bread, `Sally Lunn', where the name is believed to be a corruption of the French `soleil et lune'. The bread is similar to brioche, but does not require the overnight rising of classic brioche. This means one can make a traditional buttery bread from start to finish in one day.

In spite of the book's heft, it should be equally at home by the armchair and in the kitchen.
This is the Lee brothers first book and it is excellent, however their third book Charleston Kitchen is my favorite.
The brothers prose is enjoyable to read and very informative.
At this point I've tried a few recipes from this book and quite a few more from Charleston Kitchen and they've all been very good to excellent.
My favorite Southern cookbook remains Edna Lewis The Taste of Country Cooking which I've had since around 1980 and am on my second copy.