| Eat Drink Delta Subjects: TRAVEL / United States / South / East South Central (AL KY MS TN).; COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / American / Southern States.; COOKING / History.; Cooking American; Cooking American; The Mississippi Delta is a complicated and fascinating place. Part travel guide, part cookbook, and part photo essay, Eat Drink Delta by veteran food journalist Susan Puckett (with photographs by Delta resident Langdon Clay) reveals a region shaped by slavery, civil rights, amazing wealth, abject deprivation, the Civil War, a flood of biblical proportions, and--above all--an overarching urge to get down and party with a full table and an open bar. SUSAN PUCKETT is a native of Jackson, Mississippi, and a graduate of the University of Mississippi. She was the food editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for eighteen years and has written for many national food and culture magazines. She is an author of six previous books, including A Cook's Tour of Mississippi and The 5:30 Challenge Cookbook . Puckett lives in Atlanta. |