Cookbook Giveaway – Deep Run Roots

The South has a new Queen of cooking and her name is Vivian Howard. Vivian’s eagerly anticipated debut cookbook, Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South is a celebration of Southern cuisine. Recently, the title was nominated in four different categories for an IACP award

For more information on this title, please see our review and recipe post which shares a recipe for Warm Banana Pudding.

We are pleased to offer three copies of Deep Run Roots to our EYB Members in the US. One of the entry options is to answer the following question in the comments section of this blog post:
 

What food defines Southern cuisine for you?

Please note that you must be logged into the Rafflecopter contest before posting or your entry won’t be counted. If you are not already a Member, you can join at no cost. The contest ends at midnight on March 15, 2017
 

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116 Comments

  • imjammin2  on  February 11, 2017

    Not sure it's considered "cuisine" but my mama was from Texas and first thing I think of is always beans & cornbread!

  • traculart  on  February 11, 2017

    For me it's all about the grits, cheese grits, shrimp and grits, Cornbread, Biscuits, Fried Chicken and Sweet Iced Tea. All my favorite dishes made by my Nana from Geogia!

  • susankay  on  February 11, 2017

    I think this banana pudding looks really good. I'd probably make it first, after checking out the index.

  • DJBWA  on  February 11, 2017

    Biscuits….right out of the oven….yum!

  • DKennedy  on  February 11, 2017

    So many recipes appeal to me – I'd probably start with the cheese balls. I am ordering a copy of her DVDs off amazon.

  • jezpurr  on  February 11, 2017

    I always think of shortcake and fried foods!!!^_^

  • cora429  on  February 11, 2017

    The recipe I want to try most is the butter-baked turkey w/pecan cranberry relish & warm sorghum vinaigrette, but there are so many I want to make. This book WILL be added to my collection sooner or later.

  • debbielovesbooks  on  February 11, 2017

    So many, but if picking just one…biscuits!

  • mpdeb98  on  February 11, 2017

    Biscuits and gravy

  • AnneOther  on  February 11, 2017

    I'm a bread lover, and the Sweet Potato Onion Bread is calling my name!

  • joanhuguet  on  February 11, 2017

    BIscuits and gravy!

  • prvrbs31gal  on  February 11, 2017

    rice pudding!

  • Mariarosa  on  February 11, 2017

    I love the pulled pork, hush puppies and sweet tea I had in North Carolina!

  • ellabee  on  February 11, 2017

    The turnip greens with ricotta-cornmeal dumplings and tomato jam.

  • tangaloor  on  February 11, 2017

    Banana pudding with nilla wafers, ever since I fell in love with it at the magnolia bakery many years ago.

  • ellabee  on  February 11, 2017

    To answer the question in the post — spoonbread. And long-cooked green beans. And greens and cornbread. And Brunswick stew. I'll stop here.

  • sgump  on  February 11, 2017

    Spoon bread . . . beaten biscuits and country ham . . . slow-cooked greens (served with apple-cider vinegar) . . . "chicken-fried" anything (well, and fried chicken, too, of course!) . . . pecan pie . . . and oh-so-many other lovely things! (Yes, I realize the prompt says "food," not "foods," but who can stop at just one?)

  • lgroom  on  February 11, 2017

    I think of greens when I think southern cooking.

  • hillsboroks  on  February 11, 2017

    I always associate sweet potatoes with Southern cooking.

  • christineleong  on  February 12, 2017

    I need to learn to make cornbread and biscuits.

  • RickPearson54  on  February 12, 2017

    biscuits and gravy

  • ravensfan  on  February 12, 2017

    Foolproof grits

  • infotrop  on  February 12, 2017

    Hmmm… I vote for fried catfish.

  • stockholm28  on  February 12, 2017

    Really great fried chicken and cornbread with no sugar.

  • ccav  on  February 12, 2017

    Grits with pimento cheese!

  • rchesser  on  February 12, 2017

    The foolproof grits

  • Suzw  on  February 12, 2017

    Grits, of course. Or biscuits and gravy.

  • niniacedo  on  February 12, 2017

    A slow cooked barbecue!

  • centraljersey  on  February 12, 2017

    This sounds intriguing: Pork shoulder steaks in red curry-braised watermelon

  • milgwimper  on  February 12, 2017

    Blueberry BBQ sauce, I think that was it…

  • davisesq212  on  February 13, 2017

    The Blueberry BBQ Chicken looks incredible as does the sweet tea!

  • cezovski  on  February 13, 2017

    The Spoonbread with Sausage Ragout looks the best to me!
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  • jenmacgregor18  on  February 13, 2017

    The use of all sorts of fresh veggies.. Ms. Howard's corn stock looks interesting and the pork chop with pickled peanut salad, too.

  • lebarron2001  on  February 13, 2017

    Sweet Potato Onion Bread

  • bching  on  February 13, 2017

    Grits are southern food to me. Shrimp and grits is my favorite way to eat them.

  • Siegal  on  February 13, 2017

    I love rice pudding

  • bstewart  on  February 13, 2017

    The pecan, pepper jelly, and stinky cheese panini sounds amazing!

  • SKrondak1234  on  February 13, 2017

    Collard greens are southern to me. Love them!

  • gjelizabeth  on  February 13, 2017

    it's cold and wet now so the Warm Banana Pudding is tempting.

  • MeganGarcia  on  February 13, 2017

    Grits, fried chicken, collard greens, baked mac n cheese, potato salad…just some of the iconic foods that remind me of my grandmother from Alabama.

  • ebs  on  February 13, 2017

    I grew up in North Carolina and what defines southern food for me is memories of the Sunday dinners we had at my grandmother and great aunt's house, including fried chicken, pole beans, white rice with gravy, biscuits – the pole beans were the best – cooked for a very long time and very tender.

  • anniemac  on  February 14, 2017

    Cornbread. While I understand there is a Northern variety (!), cornbread has been a staple all my life. Both my West Virginia and my Florida grandfathers ate it crumbled into buttermilk, and my mother served it to me doused in molasses. It's still a go-to breakfast!

  • verorenee  on  February 14, 2017

    grits sounds delish.

  • chainicin  on  February 14, 2017

    biscuits and gravy!

  • matag  on  February 14, 2017

    Grits

  • Tarquinflimbim  on  February 15, 2017

    Pork shoulder steaks in red curry-braised watermelon has to be tried!

  • lhudson  on  February 15, 2017

    Fried cat fish and hush puppies that my Gandmother would make.

  • Aggie92  on  February 15, 2017

    I am intrigued by the Shrimp and Grits with Gumbo Sauce. Two of my all-time favorite things!

  • ninaarahgnis  on  February 15, 2017

    Grits and cheese!

  • daniellespinato1  on  February 15, 2017

    Warm banana pudding sounds delish!

  • sarahawker  on  February 15, 2017

    Biscuits and Shrimp and Grits.

  • bamato  on  February 15, 2017

    cornbread!

  • TrishaCP  on  February 16, 2017

    Grits!

  • dbielick  on  February 16, 2017

    Biscuits

  • t.t  on  February 17, 2017

    cornbread

  • rashaye  on  February 18, 2017

    This is a great book and I love her grits recipe!

  • willowglen  on  February 18, 2017

    Biscuits and cornbread, but these are evearywhere. I love spoonbread; first and only time was in Virginia.

  • hippiechick1955  on  February 18, 2017

    Ricotta cornmeal dumplings with tomato jam *lick

  • kk_hermann  on  February 20, 2017

    Biscuits and gravy

  • kkhammer123  on  February 20, 2017

    Party Magnet …. My friend made it and she said it's a great recipe.

  • RSW  on  February 21, 2017

    grits. and fried chicken

  • Uhmandanicole  on  February 21, 2017

    I think hush puppies or cornbread, definitely fried chicken! Those define southern food for me

  • mattyjaco  on  February 22, 2017

    I am really excited about all the grits recipes.

  • pwykoff  on  February 22, 2017

    Grit recipes!

  • Stephaherman  on  February 22, 2017

    I've gotta try the chicken and rice!

  • Sandy.Toes  on  February 22, 2017

    Southern food to me means grits. And biscuits. Those are the absolute bare minimum requirement to be "southern". Everything else is frosting.

  • scarletmacaw  on  February 23, 2017

    I would like to try the turnip greens with ricotta-cornmeal dumplings and tomato jam – only I would like it to be vegetarian.

  • Ashbyking  on  February 23, 2017

    When I think of southern cooking I think of grits!

  • peglynn  on  February 23, 2017

    Apple Pie Moonshine!

  • Sfgordon  on  February 23, 2017

    Fried chicken is what I think of as an iconic southern food, although so many other cultures have their own versions of this dish. I'm from Texas and I will always love my great-grandma's version the best. As for vegetables, I always think of okra as being particularly southern. And for desserts I always think of pralines.

  • Teruska  on  February 24, 2017

    I think greens and dirty rice.

  • Dmartin997  on  February 24, 2017

    Grits, cornbread, and banana pudding

  • tarae1204  on  February 24, 2017

    Shrimp and grits, mint juleps..

  • hirsheys  on  February 24, 2017

    Pimento cheese. My absolute favorite.

  • monique.potel  on  February 26, 2017

    hello i do have an address in the united stated and my favorite southern food is fried green tomatoes

  • TraceyG  on  February 26, 2017

    I really want to try any of her beet recipes. It is my favorite, albiet, under rated veggie at the market.

  • AnnaZed  on  February 26, 2017

    I would like to make Lillie's fried cornbread (page 30)
    from Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South by Vivian Howard

  • Teawench  on  February 28, 2017

    Twin muffins look pretty good

  • hrhacissej  on  March 2, 2017

    Pimento cheese

  • kbennall  on  March 2, 2017

    I can't say I know Southern cuisine particularly well, but it'd have to be cornbread.

  • cocecitycook  on  March 3, 2017

    Grits and Greens

  • agale723  on  March 3, 2017

    Grits!

  • MauMau  on  March 3, 2017

    For me it's cornbread. Not the sweetened ones either.

  • Brancica  on  March 4, 2017

    It's shrimp & grits for me

  • Grywhp  on  March 4, 2017

    Okra and cornbread

  • Maefleur  on  March 4, 2017

    Biscuits and gravy!

  • jim.windle  on  March 4, 2017

    Ingredients not from the grocery store. Growing up every, even in town, had a little garden patch. Blackberries from the edge of the woods in the backyard were made into cobblers, and rabbits trapped in the woods were fried up southern style.

  • choppergirl  on  March 4, 2017

    Grits and cornbread

  • ToPieFor  on  March 4, 2017

    I suppose the 1st thing that comes to mind is grits, fried chicken and biscuits.

  • Nancith  on  March 4, 2017

    Grits & greens speak to me of the South.

  • roxlet  on  March 4, 2017

    The hush puppies!

  • p2rex2  on  March 4, 2017

    Cornbread

  • earthnfire  on  March 4, 2017

    Grits, greens, and gumbo

  • Oldhoosier  on  March 5, 2017

    Like the idea of sausage ragout

  • nadiam1000  on  March 5, 2017

    Grits, greens and cornbread

  • jahqdruh  on  March 6, 2017

    Fried chicken and cornbread.

  • BookGal  on  March 7, 2017

    To me, Southern cooking is corn, in all its wonderful flavor and forms.

  • Katklinger  on  March 7, 2017

    Southern cooking = comfort food, grits, seafood, and family time.

  • CCF4  on  March 7, 2017

    Congrats on sweeping the IACP Cookbook awards on Sunday! Look forward to getting this book.

  • articshark  on  March 7, 2017

    Southern Cuisine is seasonal and makes use of all the bounty given to us from the Earth. And it's frickin' delicious.

  • PennyG  on  March 7, 2017

    I always think of cornbread and grits as deeply Southern.

  • Leahspitzer  on  March 8, 2017

    I think of shrimp and grits

  • Krisn8  on  March 8, 2017

    Shrimp and grits and greens are what I think of when I think southern food! I've borrowed this book from the library and made the spoonbread. Sooo good.

  • skybluesky  on  March 8, 2017

    Fried chicken and oyster dressing are what come to mind for me!

  • RaceyR  on  March 8, 2017

    I think of Sweet Tea, Grits, Crowder Peas, Lima Beans, Greens, Hush Puppies, Peanut Brittle and Boiled Peanuts.

  • jeneferg  on  March 8, 2017

    I would like to try warm banana pudding for my daughter. She loves bananas and is getting interested in cooking. Sounds like a good start.

  • pandasaurusrex  on  March 8, 2017

    I'd love to try the Pork Shoulder Steaks in Red Curry–Braised Watermelon because it sounds so intriguing and unique! The Cornbread Coffee Cake with Fresh Figs and Walnut Streusel also sounds right up my alley.

  • MmeFleiss  on  March 9, 2017

    Party magnet for sure.

  • Ladyberd  on  March 13, 2017

    Shrimp and grits – which I've never made but would love to try cooking at home.

  • annmartina  on  March 13, 2017

    Caramel cake or coconut cake

  • Marcia1206  on  March 14, 2017

    I love fried chicken and cornbread

  • JulieG1002  on  March 15, 2017

    Shrimp and grits, fried chicken, and cornbread

  • lmhester  on  March 15, 2017

    Seasonal veggies defined our Southern table growing up — whatever was in season was what we ate . . . and it was always delicious!

  • kimtrev  on  March 15, 2017

    Grits

  • Karla123  on  March 15, 2017

    Hushpuppies

  • jhartley  on  March 3, 2020

    Bacon and grits

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