February 2014
Review Copy
Okra
a Savor the South® cookbook
by Virginia Willis
120 pp., bibl., index
ISBN 978-1-4696-1442-7 $18.00 cloth
Publication date: March 10, 2014
For more information: http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/12186.html
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Passionate okra lovers crave this bright green, heat-loving vegetable, whether fried, grilled, steamed, roasted, boiled, broiled, pickled, raw, whole, sliced, or julienned. With Okra, Virginia Willis provides "the key that unlocks the door of okra desire" to okra addicts and newcomers to the pod alike.
Topping eight feet, with gorgeous butter-yellow flowers that ripen into the plant's signature seed-filled pods, okra has a long association with foodways in the American South. But as Willis shows, okra is also an important ingredient in cuisines across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Featuring gardening tips, a discussion of heirloom varieties, and expert cooking directions (including a list of "top ten slime-busting tips"), Okra brilliantly showcases fifty delectable recipes: twenty-six southern dishes, ranging from Southern-Style Fried Okra to Gulf Coast Seafood Gumbo, and twenty-four authentic global dishes, from Moroccan Lamb and Okra Tagine with Preserved Lemons to Cuban Pork with Yellow Rice, Okra, and Annatto Oil. [more]
Chef and food writer Virginia Willis hails from Atlanta and is the author of Bon Appétit, Y’all and Basic to Brilliant, Y’all.
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Promotional recipes are limited to the following with the credit line below:
· Oven-Fried Okra
· Skillet-Roasted Okra and Shrimp
· Spicy Okra and Tomatoes
From OKRA: a Savor the South® cookbook by Virginia Willis. Copyright © 2014 by Virginia Willis. Used by permission of the University of North Carolina Press. www.uncpress.unc.edu
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