Lee Bailey's Country Weekends

by Lee Bailey

The best-selling and award-winning book that established Lee Bailey as an authority on entertaining is now an affordable paperback. Lee Bailey's Country Weekends was Winner of the Tastemaker Award for Best Cookbook in 1983, and has sold more than 150,000 copies in hardcover. Full-color photographs.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Nonfiction

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

Reviews

[Debbie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This a very old (well, 1983!) cookbook and the first by Lee Bailey. There is so much to like about this book. The photographs still hold up and Bailey's suggestions, tips and techniques for pulling off an entire weekend of seemingly effortless entertaining make me think I could actually pull this off and would love to try. And I rarely, if ever entertain like this.

You can tell that Bailey is originally from the south as his recipes for corn, cornbread, fritters and peach concoctions (not to mention the okra and bourbon) are laced throughout. But either it's that this cookbook is dated or the recipes need more enticing names - I just didn't see a "WOW I'd love to try that it sounds so delicious!" recipe in the lot. Nothing bad, just nothing great. I will try a few, in any case since I have a load of peaches right now and I dearly love corn in any form.

[Sissy]

Although I'm unlikely to use any of the recipes, the photographs are an intoxicating nostalgia. Bailey's comments are a peek into another time and place.

[Gina · Rating 1 out of 5]

Maybe if you live in Cape Cod or the Hamptons.