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From: Boomer, NC USA

Joined: January 3rd, 2010

About me: I collect cookbooks and love to cook and try new recipes. I tested recipes for Leite's Culinaria for almost eight years. I learned to cook from many good southern cooks including my Mom, Dad, several Aunts and my Grandmothers. My children and husband also like to cook and try new foods and recipes. My son still lives with us but our daughter is married. She often visits to cook with me. We are adventuresome eaters willing to try new things.


Latest review:

November 19th, 2018

Bourbon Roasted Pork Loin from Everyday Dorie: The Way I Cook

This was delicious. I know she says in the book not to use the good bourbon but all I had was Woodford Reserve so that's what I used. I marinated for about 8 hours in fridge. Loved the apples and onions... read more >


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Best of the Best from North Carolina Cookbook: Selected Recipes from North Carolina's Favorite Cookbooks (Best of the Best State Cookbook)

By Gwen McKee, Gwen McKee, Barbara Moseley
Quail Ridge Press - 2006

April 28th, 2010

This is the Best of the Best from my home state, NC. It is filled with select recipes from North Carolina's favorite cookbooks as collected by Gwen McKee and Barbara Moseley. As with all the BOB state cookbooks it is illustrated by Tupper Davidson. ISBN: 0937552380 It is a spiral bound book and lays flat nicely when you want to cook from it. All the ones I have are spiral bound except the California one.

One of my favorite features of the BOB cookbooks is the catalog of contributing cookbooks listed in the back. I have eight of the thirty-eight listed in the NC edition. Of course I now have several more of those on my ever growing wish list. NC is one of my newest additions to my BOB state cookbook collection and I haven't cooked from it yet. It's kinda funny that I'd bought a few BOB NC ones to give away in swapson cookbooksetcetera but hadn't gotten one for myself until awhile back when I got it from paperbackswap.com