"The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from a Southern Revival"--What started as a place to meet and eat is now so much more, as the grocery has become the heart of a now-bustling country town (see my review)

The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from a Southern Revival

Locals go to the B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery in Water Valley, Mississippi, for its Skillet Biscuits and Sausage Gravy breakfasts, made-to-order chicken salad and spicy Tex-Mex Pimiento Cheese sandwiches, and daily specials like Shrimp and Grits that are as good as momma made. The B.T.C.’s freezers are stocked with take-home Southern Yellow Squash Casseroles and its counter is piled high with sweets like Peach Fried Pies as well as seasonal produce, local milk, and freshly baked bread.

“Be the Change” has always been the store’s motto, and that’s just what it has done. What started as a place to meet and eat is now so much more, as the grocery has become the heart of a now-bustling country town. The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery Cookbook shares 120 of the store’s best recipes, giving home cooks everywhere a taste of the food that brought a community together, sparking friendships, reviving traditions, and revitalizing an American Main Street.

MY REVIEW:  The B.T.C Old-Fashioned Grocery in Water Valley, Mississippi is both meeting place and melting pot for the small Southern community. Owner and operator Alexe Van Beuren, and her chef extraordinaire, Dixie Grimes, dish out delectable delights while local residents dish on the weather, politics, and other sundry subjects. Visitors are always welcome. Alexe, raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, settled in Water Valley with her husband and children and decided that a deli-style grocery would be just the business to offer the little town. After more than a year of hits and misses, frustrations and successes, along with a passing parade of cooks, the B.T.C. was in need of some divine intervention. Along came Dixie, a Mississippi native, whose casual mien belies her culinary training and amazing kitchen creativity. "B.T.C" stands for "Be the Change"-a Gandhi quote, and an appropriate moniker for how the success of how the grocery/cafe has positively affected the business trade for the town. Reading the stories and anecdotes throughout "The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from a Southern Revival" and salivating over the gorgeous food photos accompanying the recipes will have you longing for a seat at the cafe, perusing the menu and trying your best not to order one of everything. Here are just some of recipes to tickle your taste buds: "Italian Sausage and Mushroom Breakfast Casserole"; "Vegetable Beef Soup with Butter Beans"; "Dixie's Famous Chicken Salad"; "Ham and Horseradish Spread"; "Chicken Pot Pie with Parsnips and Roasted Leeks"; "Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Apricot-Apple Cider Glaze"; "Baked Squash with Vidalia Onions"; "Steel Magnolia Cake"; and a bonus recipe for "Dixie's Pickled Eggs". Local color, local flavor--down-home delicious.

Book Copy Gratis Clarkson Potter Publishers


 

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