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125 Classic and Healthy Southern Recipes
Scribner
July 2007
On Sale: July 1, 2007
304 pages
ISBN: 1416569626
EAN: 9781416569626
Hardcover
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Beloved comic actress Faith Ford puts a fresh and healthy
new spin on down-home cooking with 125 updated Southern
classics and traditional favorites cooked by three
generations of her family. You wouldn't know it by looking
at her -- either during her years as Corky Sherwood on CBS's
Murphy Brown or now on her hit ABC comedy Hope &
Faith -- but Faith Ford loves to eat. Growing
up in Pineville, Louisiana, Faith learned how to cook the
great Southern classics from her mother and grandmother:
Old-Fashioned Smothered Chicken, Mom's Smoky Beef Brisket,
Southern-Style Fried Catfish, Cora's Skillet Candied Sweet
Potatoes, Snap Beans and New Potatoes, Buttermilk Biscuits,
Fluffy Lemon Icebox Pie, and more. Then, at age seventeen,
she left Pineville for a modeling and acting career in New
York City and later Los Angeles. She longed for the
comforting foods of home but sought to adapt them to match
her new, California, health-conscious sensibility. Thus
began a lifetime of experimentation in the kitchen,
developing healthier versions of foods from her childhood by
cooking with olive oil; incorporating loads of vegetables --
staples on the family farm in Louisiana -- into every meal;
oven-frying; and using chopped fresh herbs for maximum
flavor. The delicious results -- Golden Crispy Oven-Fried
Chicken; Broiled Red Snapper with Olives, Onions, and
Tomatoes; Grilled Veggie Po' Boys; Dilled Egg White Salad;
Green Beans Braised with Balsamic Vinegar and Soy Sauce;
Asparagus with Tarragon Vinaigrette; Peaches-n-Creamy Shake;
and Sweet Summer Melon-Mint Salad -- regularly wow friends
in Los Angeles and have even won over Mom and the folks back
home. An inspired combination of the best of both worlds
-- the homespun, heirloom dishes Faith grew up on (because
every once in a while you need to indulge and only the "real
thing" will do) and her own healthier, more modern versions
and creations -- Cooking with Faith is also about the
bonds that grow between family and friends as they spend
time together in the kitchen. After all, says Faith,
"well-made food is an experience. It's about taking pride in
what you eat. It's a remedy for an increasingly
fast-food-reliant society -- I mean, how can you be that
much in a hurry?"
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