The Lee Bros. Cookbook: Stories and Recipes for Southerners and Would-Be Southerners.

Lee, Matt (author) and Ted Lee (author).

It would be difficult to imagine any more enthusiastic or winning advocates for southern cooking than the Lee brothers. Raised in Charleston, South Carolina, but New Yorkers by choice, their entry into the southern food business began when they got a hankering for some boiled peanuts, and no place even in all Gotham could satisfy their need. A mail--order business ensued, and soon they became purveyors of all sorts of foodstuffs from the nation’s Southeast. Their cookbook begins with a collection of drink recipes, from sweet tea to potent planters’ punch. To accompany these beverages, the Lee brothers array a long series of snack and party foods. A section on preserves and pickles documents some rarely seen regional treats, such as Jerusalem artichoke relish. Meats, seafood, sweets, and breads round out the book. Every recipe has a story attached, and the large format makes for easy reading.