Hailed as an instant classic when it appeared in 1987, John Egerton's Southern Food captures the flavor and feel of what it has meant for southerners, over the generations, to gather at the table. This book is for reading, for cooking, for eating (in and out), for referring to, for browsing in, and, above all, for enjoying. Egerton first explores southern food in more than 200 restaurants in eleven southern states; he describes their specialties and recounts his conversations with owners, cooks, waiters, and customers. Then, because some of the best southern cooking is done at home, Egerton...

The compelling story of the earliest calls for desegregation and racial justice in the South.

"Make room on your library shelf . . . for John Egerton's magnificent Speak Now Against the Day. His book is a stunning achievement: a sprawling, engrossing, deeply moving account of those Southerners, black and white, who raised their voices to challenge the South's racial mores. . . . This] is an eloquent and passionate book, and . . . one we cannot afford to forget.--Charles B. Dew, New York Times Book Review

"A rich and inspiring story. . . . Egerton] has...

The first volume in what will be an annual collection, Cornbread Nation gathers the best of recent Southern food writing. In fifty entries--original features and selections previously published in magazines and journals--contributors celebrate the people, places, traditions, and tastes of the American South.

In these pages, Nikki Giovanni expresses her admiration for the legendary Edna Lewis, James Villas remembers his friend Craig Claiborne, Rick Bragg thinks back on Thanksgivings at home, Robert Morgan describes the rituals of canning time, and Fred Chappell offers a...

"Winner of the 1984 Lillian Smith Award The saga of the Ledfords of Lancaster, Kentucky, Generations transcends family biography to become a social history of our national experience, a metaphor of America. This twentieth anniversary edition brings the Ledfords' remarkable story up to date.

Visionaries of all ages and places have pursued Utopias, dreaming impossible dreams of starting over in new communities fashioned more closely to their ideals. In Visions of Utopia, John Egerton traces the fascinating history of the experimental communities founded by such groups in Tennessee. He focuses in particular on three extraordinary colonies of the 19th century, each of them widely known in its time: Nashoba, and interracial settlement near Memphis in 1825; Rugby, an English cooperative community on the Cumberland Plateau in 1880; and Ruskin, a socialist community in Dickson County in...

While working at the University of Tennessee in the early 1980s, Larry T. McGehee was looking for a way to share the wealth of history, politics, art, and culture with the residents of the South's small towns. He hit upon the idea of a newspaper column that would run in the region's weekly papers. Through his stories, McGehee encouraged people to look at the people, places, and things around them with a fresh set of eyes. Southern Seen collects McGehee's numerous columns exploring the South's history, inhabitants, mannerisms, food, and foibles. His subjects range from the outdoors and the...

Two British doctors immigrate to Texas with their four young children.They try to balance running a busy medical practice near Houston with their weekend adventures in a small village in the Texas Hill Country. Present day patient encounters and memories from the past add humor and tragedy to this story of adjustment to a new culture.

A young Houston doctor starting a promising career meets with unexpected problems. Mysterious illness's, deaths. And an attempt on his life. Why? The more he discovers the more he realizes that he and his wife are in a bizarre and horrific situation. Trapped in a world for which they are unprepared. To escape he has to make decisions that put both their lives in peril. And he will discover secrets that are almost too terrible to comprehend.