Even a section of shortcut soups that can be made quickly with ingredients straight from the grocer's shelf. Clearly written and easy to use, the book also tells cooks how to choose the best equipment, select and store ingredients, and make the perfect pot of stock or successfully substitute canned broths. Always the baker, Marilyn Moore concludes with a few special recipes for breads and crackers that go especially well with soups.

Featuring over 250 proven recipes, as well as clear, concise directions on everything from setting up the perfect bread-baking kitchen to creating your own unique recipes, this indispensable tool is for anyone who longs to create the satisfying delights of home-baked breads.

No matter how your cookbook is published, this is a splendidly useful compendium on the whole prickly process of making and selling a book, from initial idea to sales and promotion. Betty Fussell, author of Crazy for Corn Anyone thinking about writing a cookbook must read Marilyn Moores book. She has the knowledge and ability to explain how to start the process and how to sell your work when it is finished. Irena Chalmers, Irena Chalmers Books, Inc. With her characteristically direct, clear, clean approach, Moore has covered everything from the initial idea or urge, through the fun and the frustrating, all the way to storing bound books. A multitude of good, solid, helpful information. Brava! Mardee Haidin Regan, cookbook editor Clear and concise, this small book demystifies self-publishing. Packed with information, it earns a place on every cookbook writers reference shelf. Patty Vineyard MacDonald, MPress What a piece of work! Theres nothing left out. Rose Grant, Indexer. Informative, well-organized, and easy-to-read I highly recommend it to anyone thinking of self-publishing a cookbook. Lily Loh, Solana Publishing This well-organized, easy-to-read how-to book will be in constant demand by authors and self-publishers. Highly recommended for all libraries. Lou Graham, Librarian An absolutely superb job of conveying to the lay person (or professional) how to produce a cookbook. The best guide written yet. Bonnie Stewart Mickelson, Pickle Point Publishing

In Inventing Authenticity, Carrie Helms Tippen examines the rhetorical power of storytelling in cookbooks to fortify notions of southernness. Tippen brings to the table her ongoing hunt for recipe cards and evaluates a wealth of cookbooks with titles like Y’all Come Over and Bless Your Heart and famous cookbooks such as Sean Brock’s Heritage and Edward Lee’s Smoke and Pickles. She examines her own southern history, grounding it all in a thorough understanding of the relevant literature. The result is a deft and entertaining dive into the territory of southern cuisine—“black-eyed peas and cornbread,fried chicken and fried okra, pound cake and peach cobbler,”—and a look at and beyond southern food tropes that reveals much about tradition, identity, and the yearning for authenticity. Tippen discusses the act of cooking as a way to perform—and therefore reinforce—the identity associated with a recipe, and the complexities inherent in attempts to portray the foodways of a region marked by a sometimes distasteful history. Inventing Authenticity meets this challenge head-on, delving into problems of cultural appropriation and representations of race, thorny questions about authorship, and more. The commonplace but deceptively complex southern cookbook can sustain our sense of where we come from and who we are—or who we think we are.

Provides recipes and tips for preparing traditional American entrees and side dishes, such as pot roast, creamed corn, and apple crisp.