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A lively, informal history of over three centuries of southern hospitality and cuisine, Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South traces regional gastronomic habits from the sparse diet of the first settlers on the Atlantic shore, who learned from necessity to eat what the Indians ate, to the lavish corporate cocktail parties of the New South.
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Joe Gray Taylor (1920-1987) was professor and head of the Department of History at McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana. He is the author of Louisiana Reconstructed, 1863-1877 and Louisiana: A Bicentennial History, among other books, as well as recipient of both the Louisiana Literary Award and the L. Kemper Williams Prize for History in 1976.
John Egerton lives in Nashville, Tennessee and writes about the South. He is the author of Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History, Side Orders: Small Helpings of Southern Cookery and Culture, and The Americanization of Dixie.
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