his is a beautiful book from one of my favorite people from the now canceled, food network show, Melting Pot. This book is also special since I got to see Tanya at the LA Times book festival and she autographed the book to me. Growing up in the south I grew up on good old southern type soul food and it's nice to have this book that uses fresh and healthy ingredients. Even though there is no nutritional values listed you can tell by the ingredients that these dishes are healthier for you than many of the standard southern recipes.
There are 95 recipes included in this book, many with beautiful color photos.
At the festival from this book Tanya made Sweet Potato Blinis with Bourbon-cured salmon and caviar; File-crusted scallops with tomato and okra ragout; and a most unusual dish - Raspberry Grit parfaits. They looked really good and she said the photographers son loved them as proved by the picture of him enjoying one in the book.