"Someone" Learns How to Cook the Southern Way

By Mary Buchanan

THE CUISINE OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH has long held a place in the hearts of America and the world. Whether you're cooking comfort food for friends and family or you want a little something sweet and delicious for yourself, southern cooking has something for everyone.

 

If you're a would-be cook who is hesitant, insecure, or challen

• Language: English
• Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
• Release date: Feb 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781649903839

Mary Buchanan

In the early summer of 1959, I was a young, black girl with four younger siblings, a mother who was barely putting food on the table for us and a step-father who had headed North months earlier, in search of a job and money. My mother and I had few resources to hold the family together, and what we had was drying up quickly. Then, like an angel, my mother’s cousin drove into town with promises of a job and a better life, just for the summer, in Upstate New York. Little did we know our three-month visit would last over three decades. Mary Buchanan was born in Camp Hill, Alabama. She moved to New York in 1959 and spent the majority of her life in Upstate New York. Mary relocated to Georgia in 1994 where she resides today.

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