Sylvia's Family Soul Food Cookbook

Shop Notes: I just love cookbooks that exude pride and joy in one's family and community and this book has both in spades.  The recipes are a mixture of classic lowcountry Southern and modern Soul food.  This book in particular is difficult to keep in stock, it's that good. From the Publisher: Sylvia's Family Soul Food Cookbook begins as Sylvia recalls her childhood, when she lived with both her mother and her grandmother -- the town's only midwives. The entire community of Hemingway, South Carolina, shared responsibilities, helped raise all of the children, and worked side by side together every day in the bean fields. Perhaps most important, the community shared its food and recipes. When Sylvia set out to write this cookbook, she decided to hold a cook-off back home in Hemingway at Jeremiah Church. Family and friends of all ages shared their favorite dishes as well as their spirit and love for one another. The recipes offered at the cook-ofBf were then compiled to create this incred