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DESCRIPTION:Avid Bookshop is hosting a book signing with Susan Puckett\, 
 the author of Eat Drink Delta. Join us Saturday\, January 26\, 2013\, fr
 om 4pm to 5pm.The Mississippi Delta is a complicated and fascinating pla
 ce. Part travel guide\, part cookbook\, and part photo essay\, Eat Drink
  Delta by veteran food journalist Susan Puckett (with photographs by Del
 ta resident Langdon Clay) reveals a region shaped by slavery\, civil rig
 hts\, amazing wealth\, abject deprivation\, the Civil War\, a flood of b
 iblical proportions\, and&mdash\;above all&mdash\;an overarching urge to
  get down and party with a full table and an open bar.There's more to De
 lta dining than southern standards. Puckett uncovers the stories behind 
 convenience stores where dill pickles marinate in Kool-Aid and diners wh
 ere tabouli appears on plates with fried chicken. She celebrates the reg
 ion's hot tamale makers who follow the timehonored techniques that inspi
 red many a blues lyric. And she introduces us to a new crop of Delta che
 fs who brine chicken in sweet tea and top stone-ground Mississippi grits
  with local pond-raised prawns and tomato confit. The guide also provide
 s a taste of events such as Belzoni's World Catfish Festival and Tunica'
 s Wild Game Cook-Off and offers dozens of tested recipes\, including the
  Memphis barbecue pizza beloved by Elvis and a lemon ice-box pie inspire
 d by Tennessee Williams.To William Faulkner's suggestion\, "To understan
 d the world\, you must first understand a place like Mississippi\," Susa
 n Puckett adds this advice: Go to the Delta with an open mind and an emp
 ty stomach. Make your way southward in a journey measured in meals\, not
  miles.\nABOUT THE AUTHOR:&nbsp\;Susan Puckett is a native of Jackson\, 
 Mississippi\, and a graduate of the University of Mississippi. She was t
 he food editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for eighteen years an
 d has written for many national food and culture magazines. She is an au
 thor of six previous books\, including A Cook&rsquo\;s Tour of Mississip
 pi and The 5:30 Challenge Cookbook. Puckett lives in Atlanta.PRAISE:"Fin
 ally! A book devoted entirely to the foodways of Mississippi's delta&mda
 sh\;cradle of the civil rights movement\, birthplace of the blues\, and 
 a confounding culinary region where stuffed grape leaves cozy up to barb
 ecue\, tamales to fried green tomatoes\, and kibbeh to lemon icebox pie.
  In Eat Drink Delta Mississippi native Susan Puckett makes sense of it a
 ll&mdash\;town by town\, kitchen by kitchen\, dish by dish&mdash\;in an 
 engaging travelogue that takes the reader to family-run roadhouses\, sea
 sonal tea rooms\, postmodern bistros\, and out-of-the- way juke joints. 
 In her sojourns\, Puckett charmed the best recipes out of the region's c
 ooks\, making this not only the best insider's guide to the area but a s
 uperb delta cookbook as well&mdash\;you'll need one copy for the car and
  one for the kitchen!"\n&mdash\;Matt Lee and Ted Lee\, authors of The Le
 e Bros. Simple Fresh Southern: Knockout Dishes with Down-Home Flavor"A t
 ravelogue\, a guide to Delta dining\, and a cookbook\, Susan Puckett's E
 at Drink Delta uses foodways as a window to the region's culture. It wil
 l appeal to anyone who wants to better understand the Delta\, whether fr
 om an armchair or a car."\n&mdash\;Dr. Luther Brown\, director of the De
 lta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University"Eat Drink 
 Delta eloquently tells the story of the deepest south of the Deep South\
 , the land where black and white can have sharp contrasts\, and yet many
  of the food traditions are blended into a rich\, smooth m&eacute\;lange
 \, much like the soil itself. Puckett immerses the reader in a tale that
  shares how the dark\, fertile soil of the Delta nurtures crops as well 
 as American food and culture. The land that produced King Cotton also pr
 oduced the King of Rock and Roll. And the land that produced catfish and
  BBQ now produces kibbee and Chinese collard greens. Puckett&rsquo\;s ar
 tful storytelling creates a vivid scene&mdash\;not mere guidebook inform
 ation&mdash\;revealing a true culinary journey through one of the largel
 y unknown areas of the country."\n&mdash\;Virginia Willis\, author of Bo
 n Appetit\, Y'all: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Souther
 n Cooking
URL:http://athens.patch.com/events/meet-the-author-of-eat-drink-delta-a-h
 ungry-travelers-journey-through-the-soul-of-the-south
SUMMARY:Meet the Author of EAT DRINK DELTA: A Hungry Traveler’s Journey
  through the Soul of the South
LOCATION:Avid Bookshop: 493 Prince Ave\, Athens\, GA
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