Two Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking

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Here is a book that makes you hungry, not only for shrimp pilau and hoe cake, but for adventure and out-of-the-way places. After eating you want to stroll along the old streets of Charleston, study the iron-grilled porches and smell the flower gardens. For there is atmosphere in this volume, as well as information and glamour.

Two Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking should appeal to people who enjoy cooking and to lovers of the old city.... Not only does the cookbook give a richness of recipes but it also gives colorful and descriptive views of the atmosphere of Charleston in days past.

Like many other good cooks, Charleston cooks know no rules nor measures but cook by instinct and a real knowledge of cookery. So this collection of authentic receipts was no easy task to collect.

The reader is transported into a long-gone leisurely era.... Yet one thing remains unchanged: the appreciation of good food gracefully served.