Remembering Bill Neal: Favorite Recipes from a Life in Cooking

Moreton Neal; Bill Neal; John T. Edge

ISBN 10: 0807829137 / ISBN 13: 9780807829134

Published by Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2004

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0807829137I4N00

Synopsis:

A gifted chef, restaurateur, and writer working at a time when Americans were beginning to take a new interest in their culinary heritage, Bill Neal (1950-1991) helped raise Southern food to national prominence. Having rescued spattered and faded recipe cards from the Chapel Hill restaurant they founded together, Bill's former wife and business partner, Moreton Neal, has compiled a book that captures the diversity and range of his cooking and illustrates the aesthetic that he applied to making meals. Remembering Bill Neal features more than 150 recipes - most of them never published before - from all stages of Bill's career: classic French dishes from La Residence, Southern traditional cooking from Crook's Corner, and fast and easy recipes from home. Moreton's introductory passages and headnotes introduce Bill to readers and frame his recipes in the context of his career and his legacy as a chef. Part cookbook, part memoir, this volume both instructs and entertains, showing the lasting importance of Bill Neal's influence in the American regional cooking movement as well as his role as muse and mentor to a generation of Southern home and professional cooks.

About the Author: Moreton Neal was married to Bill Neal for a decade and remained his friend until his death. With him, she was founder and co-owner as well as a chef at La Residence in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Today, she cohosts a radio talk show and writes a regular column for Raleigh Metro magazine.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Remembering Bill Neal: Favorite Recipes from...
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket