A Southern Thanksgiving : Recipes and Musings for a Manageable Feast.

ISBN:

9781632863799

Title:

Author:

Dew, Robb Forman.

Personal Author:

Dew, Robb Forman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (72 pages)

Contents:

Intro -- Dedication -- By the Same Author -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Preface to the New Edition -- Preparing the Feast -- Menu for Twelve -- A Reasonable Strategy -- The Presentation Of The Meal -- Recipes -- Cocktails -- Blanched and Other Vegetables Vinaigrette -- Basic Vinaigrette -- New Orleans Crab Cakes -- Roast Turkey -- Dry-Brined, Spatchcocked Turkey -- Thanksgiving Gravy -- Cornbread Dressing with Sausage and Apples -- Cranberry Jelly and Whole Cranberry Sauce -- Buttered Long-Grain White Rice -- Mashed Potatoes -- Yams Mousseline -- Broccoli Mornay -- Braised Red Cabbage and Chestnuts -- Green Salad Vinaigrette -- Dessert -- Lalie's Pumpkin Chiffon Pie with Gingersnap Crust -- Oranges in Red Wine -- Leftovers -- A Note on the Author -- Copyright.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Thanksgiving cooking.

Cooking, American-Southern style.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2015

Publication Information:

New York :

Bloomsbury Publishing USA,

2015.

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Summary

Robb Forman Dew first began collecting her Thanksgiving recipes at the request of a cousin who hadn't cooked before. In A Southern Thanksgiving , she gathers them into a cookbook--both practical and literary--for an easy-to-prepare, sumptuous Southern feast. In recreating the ambiance of her remembered Thanksgivings in the South, she found that planning ahead is crucial. A Southern Thanksgiving includes recipes for such delicious dishes as Yams Mousseline, Roast Turkey with Gravy and Cornbread Dressing, and Lalie's Pumpkin Chiffon Pie with Gingersnap Crust--many of which can be made weeks ahead and frozen.Dew offers such an effortless strategy for preparing the Thanksgiving meal that both you and your guests will have the time to enjoy the day together. Hers is a book to be treasured, savored, and used by first-time cooks and experienced hosts alike.

Author Notes

The novels of Robb Forman Dew deal primarily with the nature of relationships in contemporary family life. Dale Loves Sophie to Death (1981), a winner of the American Book Award in 1982, inspired a sequel, Fortunate Lives (1992). Her third novel, The Time of Her Life, was published in 1984. Dew has also published a non-fiction work about her own family, Family Heart: A Memoir of When Our Son Came Out; and a cookbook, A Southern Thanksgiving: Recipes and Musings for a Manageable Feast (1992). She wrote a fiction trilogy which included The Evidence Against Her (2001), The Truth of the Matter (2005), and Being Polite to Hitler (2011).

Dew, born in 1946, was raised in the South and credits time spent living with her grandfather, John Crowe Ransom, poet and critic, as an influence on her writing style. She is married to historian Charles Dew, and has two sons.

Rob Forman Dew died at the age of 73 on May 22, 2020.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Booklist Review

First home, first adult Thanksgiving. . . and first turkey. "Facing an uncooked turkey for the first time is sort of like being told you have to read The Sound and The Fury and contemplating the book in all its complexity," says novelist Dew. Yet her short, simple, and elegant instructions do more to soothe holiday nerves than all The Joy of Cooking and Julia Child collections. Only a dozen recipes are included in a menu for 12; some reflect traditional New England fare (e.g., cornbread dressing with sausage and apples, cranberry jelly), while others display a southern heritage--yams mousseline, buttered long-grain white rice. What's most important, however, are her genteel confidence-building narrative and exhaustive preparation directions. Natchez-raised Dew proffers a sense of quiet, assured hospitality unmatched by even the best of holiday culinary ideas. ~--Barbara Jacobs