A Southerly Course: Recipes and Stories from Close to Home

A Southerly Course: Recipes and Stories from Close to Home by Martha Hall Foose is a richly personal exploration of Mississippi Delta cooking from a James Beard Award–winning voice in Southern cuisine. Blending vibrant recipes—like skillet-fried corn, braised pork shoulder, and classic Southern desserts—with humor and lived experience, Foose captures the rhythms and nuances of Delta life. Rooted in place yet open to broader culinary influences, this collection offers a fresh, deeply authentic perspective on Southern foodways, celebrating both tradition and the evolving flavors of home cooking.