Eat drink Delta : a hungry traveler's journey through the soul of the South / Susan Puckett ; photographs by Langdon Clay.

By:

Puckett, Susan, 1956-

Contributor(s):

Clay, Langdon, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages) : color illustrations, color mapContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780820344935
0820344931

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Eat drink Delta.DDC classification:

641.5975 23

LOC classification:

TX715.2.L68 P83 2013eb

Other classification:

CKB041000 | CKB002060 | TRV025080

Online resources:

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Contents:

Introduction -- Memphis : gateway to the Delta -- Tucina and environs : Las Vegas of the South -- Clarksdale : cradle of the blues, crossroads of cultures -- Como : hill town with a Delta rhythm -- Tallahatchie County : wild and mysterious -- Cleveland and environs : home of the fighting okra -- Greenville : Athens of the Delta -- Leland : imagination flows along Deer Creek -- Sunflower County : homegrown legends -- Greenwood and environs : from cotton capital of the world to home of the high-tech range -- Humphreys County : the catfish capital -- Yazoo City : half hills and half Delta -- Vicksburg : red carpet city of the South -- Epilogue.

Summary: Much like John T. Edge's Southern Belly in conception - but with a more focused regional scope - this book gets at the culture and foodways of the Mississippi Delta through lively descriptions of the region's restaurants, following a geographical path chapter by chapter from Memphis to Vicksburg. Introductions to each chapter as well as box features bring out historical and social context, highlighting famous deltans like Mose Allison and Jim Henson as well as interesting regional topics like "the Fighting Okra" or the annual spaghetti gravy cookoff. The author has included sixty-plus recipes, each with a connection to one of the restaurants or featured individuals (Memphis Barbecue Pizza, for example. as favored by Elvis). Photographs illuminate diners, restaurant settings, streetscapes, and snapshots of Delta life. -- Provided by publisher.

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Much like John T. Edge's Southern Belly in conception - but with a more focused regional scope - this book gets at the culture and foodways of the Mississippi Delta through lively descriptions of the region's restaurants, following a geographical path chapter by chapter from Memphis to Vicksburg. Introductions to each chapter as well as box features bring out historical and social context, highlighting famous deltans like Mose Allison and Jim Henson as well as interesting regional topics like "the Fighting Okra" or the annual spaghetti gravy cookoff. The author has included sixty-plus recipes, each with a connection to one of the restaurants or featured individuals (Memphis Barbecue Pizza, for example. as favored by Elvis). Photographs illuminate diners, restaurant settings, streetscapes, and snapshots of Delta life. -- Provided by publisher.