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Mrs. Wilkes' Boardinghouse Cookbook: Recipes and Recollections from Her Savannah
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Mrs. Wilkes' Boardinghouse Cookbook: Recipes and Recollections from Her Savannah Table Hardcover - 2001

by Sema Wilkes

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  • Hardcover

After "Esquire" and "The New York Times" raved about her southern-style cooking, Sema Wilkes found herself and her boardinghouse meals making national news. Now the 94-year old Wilkes has collected over 300 of her most popular recipes for fried chicken, biscuits and banana pudding in this book. Illustrations.

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Ten Speed Press, May 2001. Hardcover. USED Good.
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  • Title Mrs. Wilkes' Boardinghouse Cookbook: Recipes and Recollections from Her Savannah Table
  • Author Sema Wilkes
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition USED Good
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA
  • Date May 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 503967
  • ISBN 9781580082570 / 1580082572
  • Weight 1.83 lbs (0.83 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.32 x 8.45 x 0.83 in (26.21 x 21.46 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Deep South
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: Georgia
  • Library of Congress subjects Cookery, American - Southern style
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00065574
  • Dewey Decimal Code 641.597

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From the publisher

SEMA WILKES was born in 1907 to Georgia farmers who grew tobacco, cured hams, smoked sausages, and otherwise worked hard to get by. As the oldest of four children, all orphaned, she learned to cook out of necessity. Married at 16, a mother at 21, relocated to Savannah in the name of the war effort at 35, Sema went to work at Mrs. Dixon’s Boardinghouse. Three years later, in 1943, she took over the boardinghouse and began building what would become her legacy. She lives in Savannah, Georgia, and still works at the boardinghouse every day.

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Media reviews

“Captures the essence of Southern fare.” —Restaurant Hospitality “[Mrs. Wilkes' biscuits are] one of the greatest things, ever, to happen in my life.” —Craig Claiborne“[At Mrs. Wilkes'] the guests look in amazement as big platters of crisp, fried chicken and plenty of it, are set down on the white oilcloth. Then come feathery biscuits, generous squares of cornbread, tender okra simmered with tomatoes, pickled beets, candied yams, pitchers of sweetened ice tea.” —Boston Globe“Certainly down-home food is not news to regulars at such enduring American establishments as Mrs. Wilkes' Boardinghouse in Savannah, where guests sit at community lunch tables and help themselves from ten to twelve bowls and platters of meats, salads, and vegetables.” —Time“A meal at Mrs. Wilkes' is reminiscent of dinner at Grandma's.” —Esquire

Citations

  • Library Journal, 03/15/2001, Page 102
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/02/2001, Page 60

About the author

SEMA WILKES was born in 1907 to Georgia farmers who grew tobacco, cured hams, smoked sausages, and otherwise worked hard to get by. As the oldest of four children, all orphaned, she learned to cook out of necessity. Married at 16, a mother at 21, relocated to Savannah in the name of the war effort at 35, Sema went to work at Mrs. Dixon's Boardinghouse. Three years later, in 1943, she took over the boardinghouse and began building what would become her legacy. She lived in Savannah, Georgia, until her death in 2002.

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