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Sylvia's Family Soul Food Cookbook: From Hemingway, South Carolina, To Harlem | 
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| Author: Sylvia Woods
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks
Category: Book
List Price: $26.95
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 56531
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.7 x 1
ISBN: 0688162193
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.59296073
EAN: 9780688162191
ASIN: 0688162193
Publication Date: July 7, 1999
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Product Description
Sylvia's Family Soul Food Cookbook begins as Sylvia recalls her childhood, when she lived with both her mother and her grandmother -- the town's only midwives. The entire community of Hemingway, South Carolina, shared responsibilities, helped raise all of the children, and worked side by side together every day in the bean fields. Perhaps most important, the community shared its food and recipes. When Sylvia set out to write this cookbook, she decided to hold a cook-off back home in Hemingway at Jeremiah Church. Family and friends of all ages shared their favorite dishes as well as their spirit and love for one another. The recipes offered at the cook-off were then compiled to create this incredible collection, along with many of Sylvia's and the Woods family's own recipes.Here are the kinds of recipes you'd find if you visited the Woods family's home. Sylvia's daughter Bedelia is well known for her Barbecued Beef Short Ribs, which are as sassy and spicy as Bedelia herself. Kenneth, Sylvia's youngest son, has loved to fish ever since he was a child, spending his summers by the fishing hole in Hemingway. Now Kenneth's son, DeSean, enjoys fishing, too. Kenneth's Honey Lemon Tilefish, DeSean's favorite, is just one of Kenneth's special recipes presented here. And there are many, many other wonderful dishes, too. In this remarkable cookbook, Sylvia has gathered more than 125 soul food classics, including mouthwatering recipes for okra, collard greens, Southern-style pound cakes, hearty meat and seafood stews and casseroles, salads, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, and more. These recipes are straight from the heart of the Woods community of family and friends. Now Sylvia gives them to you to share with your loved ones. Bring them into your home and experience a little bit of Hemingway's soul.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 26 more reviews...
 Nummy July 9, 2008
This book has the best cornbread recipe I've ever used. It's fantastic, and makes a large batch.
I freely recognize that I'm no expert on soul food (California girl, born and raised) but tasty food is tasty food, I don't care where you come from.
Soul Food recipes at their Best! June 27, 2008
I had the pleasure of dining at Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem with my Mom about 8 years ago. Not only wee we impressed with the service but the food was incredibly delicious! So good, that I bought her cookbook at the restaurant and was lucky enough to meet her and get it autographed. What a sweet and gracious lady!
This book is filled with all the recipes used at her restaurant. Not only are they simple to follow and yummy but your family will be pleased with the results. There's no other like Sylvia!
Great book - Great food May 18, 2008
This is one of my favorite cookbooks. I probably turn to it more than any others. Having this book is like having one of those family members nearby; you know, and Aunt, or Grandmother, that has been cooking for big families all their lives and really knows how to make some fabulous, old fashioned food. My Mother-in-law is like that - man, that woman can cook and she has a lot of good, simple recipes. This book gives you those types of recipes, and along with them, you get the stories of her family connected with the recipes. Every recipe I have cooked from this book has been good - they are simple recipes and they are some goo-oood eatin! This is true soul food, so it is not low-cal or low-fat, but you can change-up the recipes to make them healthier if need to, or just cook as-is and enjoy.
 Red Velvet Cake recipe March 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been searching for a tasty Red Velvet Cake recipe for a while now. I got the recipe from the Food Network website, and choose this one because I did not want to replicate Cakeman Raven's cake. I am happy with my choice (i used it to make cupcakes). The cake was soft and moist on the inside with a slighty chewy outside. I followed the advice of one of the other posters and used 2 tablespoons of the cocoa powder. When I tasted the raw batter, it had a pleasant chocolate taste, but when I tasted the final cake, it was a little more subtle. Another adjustment that I made was to increase the amount of sugar in the recipe; I added an additional 1/2 c of sugar which bought out the chocolate flavor. I did not make the frosting because I already had a recipe that my friends and family liked.
Once I tasted the cake I came on Amazon and purchased the book.
You can't go wrong! July 24, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've read her cookbook from front to back many, many times. I love the receipes, as well as her family stories that help these receipes come alive and taste great! You can't go wrong with this cookbook. A MUST for your cookbook collection. I loved this cookbook so much, that I'm going to purchase her other cookbook.
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