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[email protected]. Mississippi Libraries Vol. 80 No. 2 • Summer 2017 Page 22 Mississippi Cooks Building A Culinary Collection Deborah Lee to explore Mississippi customs and Tea: Recipes and Tales from a South- Professor and Coordinator, traditions. ern Cook (Clarkson Potter, 2008; Graduate Student Services No collection of Mississippi cook- ISBN: 978-0307351401). Mississippi State University Libraries books would be complete without The text reads like a good con- When I first visited the state of at least one title from Martha Hall versation from homecoming: lots of Mississippi twenty six years ago, the Foose. Born in Mississippi, Foose good recipes interspersed with com- food was one of the first things I no- is a noted food writer and served munity gossip and culinary wisdom. ticed. Every restaurant table had a as the food stylist for the movie The For example, her “Sold My Soul to bottle of pepper sauce, the portion Help. Foose gained national atten- the Devil-ed Eggs” (pg. 18) includes sizes were generous, and the food tion when she won the James Beard useful information on avoiding was almost always excellent! With Award for Screen Doors and Sweet the green ring that sometimes ap- the bounty of culinary expertise in pears in boiled eggs.