Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Gifted chef and storyteller Martha Hall Foose invites you into her kitchen to share recipes that bring alive the landscape, people, and traditions that make Southern cuisine an American favorite.

Born and raised in Mississippi, Foose cooks Southern food with a contemporary flair: Sweet Potato Soup is enhanced with coconut milk and curry powder; Blackberry Limeade gets a lift from a secret ingredient–cardamom; and her much-ballyhooed Sweet Tea Pie combines two great Southern staples–sweet tea and pie, of course–to make one phenomenal signature dessert. The more than 150 original recipes are not only full of flavor, but also rich with local color and characters.

As the executive chef of the Viking Cooking School, teaching thousands of home cooks each year, Foose crafts recipes that are the perfect combination of delicious, creative, and accessible. Filled with humorous and touching tales as well as useful information on ingredients, techniques, storage, shortcuts, variations, and substitutions, Screen Doors and Sweet Tea is a must-have for the American home cook–and a must-read for anyone who craves a return to what cooking is all about: comfort, company, and good eating.

Customer Reviews: Read 22 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

LOVE this book! May 6, 2008
51 out of 53 found this review helpful

I was determined to make a red velvet cake the other day and thought, What Would Martha Do? As in Martha Foose, not what you're thinking....Well, lo and behold, I dare you to try out her Red Velvet Cake recipe, nothing like you have ever tried before, and leave all that food coloring back at the store. Her recipe rocks and I learned alot.

Before I got started on this Red Velvet Cake venture, I mixed up a Mailbox Cocktail. Mmmm, that's all I can say and that's all there is to say: Mmmmm. My new favorite drink.

And then I read the story of Young Steve and the long wait by the mailboxes for the Regulation-Size B.B. Gun Pistol to arrive; and I was there along with ya'll on Pluto. For I know so well, those advertisements in the back of the comic book pages, the ones I grew up on in the seventies when we had no TV in South Africa, the ones that bragged about the possibility of sea monkeys, X-Ray glasses, T.V. watches, daisy guns and pup tents; those ads that were the epitome of American Spendour to me and now to Young Steve.

Thanks, your story in a blink took me back there to that time of sweet dreams and the possible, what fun. I think I will mix another Mailbox Cocktail and try out some more Pick-Up Party Food.

I TOTALLY recommend this book for anyone ready to live with the South in their heart and kitchen.

5 out of 5 stars

A true southern cookbook you can actually use every recipes June 10, 2008
22 out of 22 found this review helpful

I actually bought this book to support Martha and the local bookstore in my hometown of Greenwood, Ms. Thinking it was just another cookbook to add to my collection...Wow, What great stories and the recipes are awesome..I had been looking for a good egg and olive sandwich and pimiento and cheese,
No more, found it in this delicious cookbook..Can't wait to try other recipes. This book has inspired me to get back to cooking...I suggest that anyone that wants a cookbook, you can actually use and enjoy....Don't miss this one!!!!....5 thumbs up..

Thank you Martha.
Cindy Sturdivant

5 out of 5 stars

Don't like to cook. . . June 27, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

I want to say up front that I don't like cooking. It ranks right up there with ironing clothes as a task to put off at all costs. HOWEVER, there is something about this book that makes me want to get in the kitchen and get re-aquainted with my measuring spoons and spice rack.

If the beautiful photographs don't get you goin' then the great stories that accompany each recipe surely will. I was so inspired by "Aunt Marynaise" that I went out and bought a food processor just so I could make homemade mayo. (My mom-in-law would be soooooo proud!)

You won't be sorry you purchased this book!

Martha, my spice rack and measuring spoons thank you, and so do I!

5 out of 5 stars

Exactly what I hoped for June 8, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful

I learned about this book on the Alabama Chanin blog (see The Alabama Stitch Book by Natalie Chanin) and I was sure that I would love it. Sure enough, this book is exactly what I hoped it would be. Packed with recipes, stories and tips - it was like taking a trip to the South on my sofa. I can't wait to try the sweet potato dumplings, the red velvet cake (which does not take food coloring) and the rootbeer ham roast.

The next time I need a wedding present or housewarming gift, this will be the one.

5 out of 5 stars

A little bit of the south in the heart of the midwest! June 13, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

Wow- I collect & use many cookbooks, but this one in particual almost reads like a best selling novel. Along with some of the best southern inspired recipes as a main course, the reader gets treated to a side dish of recipe history and a dessert of wonderfully helpful notes! Some of my personal favorites include the Chicken Thighs & Dumplings--little pillow dumplings adrift in the richest of stews, honest devil-ed eggs, watermelon salsa (just incredible!) and the best ever, natural Red Velvet cake. Wash it all down with a McCarty Pottery Julep or a Mailbox cocktail! Well Martha, very, very well done!

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