White Trash Cooking II: Recipes for Gatherins

by Ernest Matthew Mickler

From Oleen’s Stuffed Pepper Slippers and Franceen’s Good Ol’ Meat to Mrs. Tooler Doolus’s Oven Spaghetti and Bobbie’s Lemon/Lime Jell-O Cake Supreme, Ernie Mickler has collected another whopping batch of the“most magnannygoshus” recipes of the Very Deepest South. Previously known as SINKIN SPELLS, HOT FLASHES, FITS AND CRAVINS, this collection has a new name and a new cover that calls to mind its best-selling brother, WHITE TRASH COOKING. Same good eatin’, though. With color photographs by the author.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

176 pages, Spiral-bound

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Miss Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Full of Lard and fat but down on the home recipes.

[Tressa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another poignant look at southern cooking, this time highlighting the church and social gatherings of the south. Picnics, funerals, weddings, and Christmas parties round out the book. Included are more great photos of my favorite southern people and places.

[Katherine · Rating 2 out of 5]

Received as a Christmas present. It's an ok book as a humor piece, but very few recipes in it I'd actually consider making.

[Gloria]

Even better than the first one !

[MB · Rating 5 out of 5]

Either you read cookbooks like other people read novels, or you don't.

I don't read this book for the recipes, which are fascinating. I read it for the stories that begin each chapter of the book. I don't think anyone has ever capture dialogue or dialect quite as well as Mickler did.

Every so often, I take this off the shelf and reread those stories. Because you can tell a lot about people from how they report on a funeral, or manage a family reunion, or steam through menopause.