Name Southern Cooks Handbook by Courtney Taylor Price $16.95 Extended Description Perfect for new brides setting up their first kitchen Southern cousins, Courtney Taylor and Bonnie Carter Travis, both experienced cooks and writers, get into the kitchen with you, explaining the fundamentals of Southern cooking and telling you how ingredients should look, feel, and smell. The cookbook features over 200 of the South's most treasured recipes such as mint juleps, gumbo, cheese grits, fried okra, pecan pie, blackberry cobbler, and fig preserves. You can't go wrong with: Basics section, with advice about kitchen equipment and choosing fresh produce. Methods section, featuring step-by-step instructions for all the basics like pan-frying, making gravy, baking biscuits, and making cream cakes. And further, there is a glossary of cooking terms.