The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook by Paula H Deen

We visited Savannah in Georgia many many years ago. It was a fantastic trip. The city is beautiful and we managed to walk everywhere, which seems to be rather unusual in my limited experience of the USA, where walking seems to be positively discouraged. Paula H. Deen had a very popular restaurant there and the residents and owners of the B&B we were staying in raved about it and she was very much admired as a single 'mom' who had worked her way up from being destitute and having spent her last piece of cash on a small sandwich business before turning it a much larger enterprise. We never got to try out the food at her restaurant though as the queue was round the block, but we did eat at her brother's restaurant 'Uncle Bubba's' which was an absolutely fantastic seafood restaurant and you know me and seafood, but the oysters and scallops were superb. Andrew must have only been 10 at the time and he loved the oysters ... I still couldn't get him to eat anything green though but hey ho! If you get the chance visit Georgia in general and Savannah in particular do go and try the B&B experiance you meet loads of people and get a true flavour of the deep South as well as it's hospitality.

Anyway I digress, I decided to pick up this cookbook during this trip as the next best thing to trying her food first hand and I have to confess, yet again, that I have never cooked anything from it. This is getting to be a pattern isn't it?