Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook

Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook by Martha Hall Foose is a James Beard Award–winning cookbook that captures the spirit of the Mississippi Delta through a rich blend of storytelling and over 150 recipes. Drawing on her Southern roots and classical French training, Foose brings both authenticity and refinement to dishes like sweet tea pie, sweet potato soup with coconut milk and curry, and blackberry limeade with cardamom. Warm, witty, and deeply rooted in place, Screen Doors and Sweet Tea is a celebration of Southern foodways as both tradition and creative expression—meant to be savored and shared.