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Originally Posted by jscarbo
The "Southern Living Heirloom Recipe Cookbook" is today's Daily Deal at Amazon US for $1.99. Anyone interested in Southern regional cuisine should consider it. It's got a lot of great recipes, all kitchen tested by the editors.
There's a note on the product page saying that "Due to technical issues, Southern Living Heirloom Recipe Cookbook should only be viewed on the Kindle Fire at this time." However, I bought and added it to my Calibre library using the Alf plug-ins and it opens and displays fine in Calibre, with the added benefit that I'm able to copy and save or print out individual recipes.
Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...d_i=1000677541 |
Good find. Thanks. I've downloaded it.
I thought that other MRs might want to know . . . . if you purchase the book, the
only option that you will have is to send it to a Kindle. On my computer Kindle for PC was grayed out; so was (I was surprised to find out) the Amazon Cloud Reader. IMO, putting it kindly, Southern Living has some work to do before they can play with the big boys in Amazon ebook publishing.
As far as the content of the book is concerned, the recipes looked interesting--that is the reason that I bought it. However, I've lived in the South and Deep South all of my life and I can tell you that many, maybe most, of the recipes are
not traditional Southern recipes. I just wanted to warn you in case you want to cook something from the book for a friend from the South or your visiting mother-in-law from the South or some other Southerner. Just scanning through the recipes . . . there's a sangria--that's Mexican. Oysters Rockefeller--from up North somewhere, for sure. Chicken Kiev--Ukrainian. Bourbon bonbons--French. Beef Fillets au Vin--French again. Beef Wellington--probably British. Cheese Fondue--Swedish. There are many more, but maybe that's enough to give you the idea. Having said that, I see many recipes that are definitely Southern and that I'm anxious to explore.
Please don't take anything that I've said in the previous paragraph as criticism of the book! There is a reason that this book has 4 1/2 stars from 38 reviews (at the present moment). This is only an attempt to help potential purchasers make a decision about buying the book--they shouldn't buy the book thinking that it is a book of mainly Southern dishes.