The Classic Guide to Delicious Dishes, with More Than 300 Recipes

In her first full-length recipe collection since The Deen Family Cookbook, the Food Network icon returns to her roots with the definitive—and delicious—guide to Southern cooking and hospitality.

As a young wife, Paula Deen regularly turned to classic American cookbooks like Better Homes & Gardens and The Joy of Cooking for help negotiating her way around everything from making biscuits, roasting chickens, and setting a table. Now, in the spirit of those well-loved tomes, Paula brings out her own timeless and indispensable collection: PAULA DEEN’S SOUTHERN COOKING BIBLE.

It is the most comprehensive repertoire of Southern dishes you’ll ever be able to find, and they are all done Paula’s way. 80% of the recipes are new, but every one of them is considered fundamental to eating in the South. The book is structured like The Joy of Cooking and other bibles of the kitchen: from the beginning of the meal—hot and cold appetizers—to the end—cakes, cookies, and pie. It has how-to illustrations throughout, showing how to peel a shrimp and how to make sweet potato balls without getting marshmallow all over your hands. Complete with sixteen pages of full-color photos, PAULA DEEN'S SOUTHERN COOKING BIBLE will be the kind of must-have book that will be on every bridal and house-warming registry, a culinary and lifestyle reference book for the next generation.