Arranged by season, these recipes are appropriate to major festivals as well as to specialized occasions, such as the Kentucky Derby Day or Twelfth Night.

Here they are--the recipes for grandmother's moist coconut cake, a favorite aunt's turkey and dressing, the sweet potato souffle to die for, and melt in the mouth French Quarter pralines. Here are the recipes for the foods that readers love.

Recipes for any family occasion; family reunions, holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, or graduations.

Shares traditional recipes for soups, breads, salads, meats, fish, vegetables, and desserts suitable for brunches, luncheons, receptions, and parties

Provides traditional Southern recipes for holiday meals, luncheons and parties and includes foods eaten by the Shakers, Moravians, Mexicans, and American Indians in the South

Provides more than two hundred recipes for traditional Southern dishes, and traces the history and heritage of the Tuskegee Institute through photographs, quotations, and journal excerpts.