Sema Wilkes

Starting in the 1940s, Wilkes ran a boarding house in Savannah, Georgia, and was known for her good cooking. She let boarders bring family and friends in to eat, and eventually that grew into a restaurant. Still known as Mrs. Wilkes' Boardinghouse, even though she hadn't taken on boarders for 30 years, the restaurant is known for its lines of people waiting for a spot at one of the community dining tables. "It is a great introduction to the whole South," says John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi. "The pomp and circumstance of it mattered as much as the food." She worked most every day for 60 years, always saying grace for the whole room before the food was served, family style, and making sure that the food was perfect -- along with the servers' manners. She was at work watching over things when she suffered a stroke, and died two weeks later on October 30. She was 95. From This is True for 27 October 2002 Suggestions for further reading: The New Best Recipe: All-New Edition by Cook's Illustrated Magazine Amazon Price: $23.10 Customer Review: I love cooks illustrated as it test recipes and equipment a hundred times to give you the best. I love the way they approach every recipe like a science project with a hypotheses. Best of all, I love cook's illustrated because the recipes and reasoni...   Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again by Ina Garten Amazon Price: $22.15 Customer Review: I love this cookbook. I have stacks of cookbooks and I have made the most items from this one. The recipes are easy to make and come out fantastically. She does a good job coming up with the most tasty items with not a whole lot of effort... she f...   500 Low-Carb Recipes: 500 Recipes from Snacks to Dessert, That the Whole Fami... by Dana Carpender Amazon Price: $13.57 Customer Review: As I inadvertently did not put a street address on this delivery, I did not receive it. Did not know how to contact you......hope this message works. Address is as follows for the (2) carb books I ordered. Judy Jensen   Home Cooking with Trisha Yearwood: Stories and Recipes to Share with Family a... by Trisha Yearwood Amazon Price: $19.24 Customer Review: This cookbook is not as good as her previous book however Trisha's mother gives some great cooking tips in this book like how to separate fat from the juices. I'm not sorry I bought this cookbook, it's a good cookbook, but the other book had many mo...   Dr. Atkins' Quick & Easy New Diet Cookbook: Companion to Dr. Atkins' New Diet... by Robert C. Atkins, Veronica Atkins Amazon Price: $12.20 Customer Review: The recipes were easy to follow and most of them have ingredients you have in your cupboard. I bought the book a month ago and have lost 15 pounds already. Yahoo!!!   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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