Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House Cookbook : A Celebration of Traditional Southern Dishes that Made Miss Mary Bobo's an American Legend

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Summary: Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House Cookbook by Jack Daniels
Review: As a Southern transplant and lover of Southern food and cookbooks, I was a little dissapointed in this book. Miss Bobo's Boarding House has a long and wonderful reputation and though I would like to, I have not had the pleasure of dining at the establishment. The book contains a ton of history, photographs and memoriblia as well as several wonderful recipes. I was little put off though at the number of recipes that called for Jack Daniels whiskey. I realize that the Boarding House is now owned by the distillery, but to label this as the authentic cookbook of Miss Mary Bobo's legend seems a little odd as Miss Marry never served a drop of liquor on the premises. All in all, the recipies and stories are fine, it just seems that if they wanted to sell a Jack Daniels cookbook then they should have titled it as such and not used the appeal of a Southern legend to sell books.

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Summary: Childhood Revisited
Review: Earlier write-ups about Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House Cookbook intrigued me so I added it to my collection. Reading through it brought back memories of dishes I hadn't thought about -- much less made -- since my Georgia childhood. Then I started preparing them! I could swear that Miss Mary and my mother must have been bosom buddies, maybe even swapped recipes over a pitcher of homemade lemonade. From Southern Iced Tea to Sweet Deviled Eggs and Country Sausage and Gravy on Baking Powder Biscuits and from REAL Cream of Tomato Soup to Best Fruit Salad, the tastes of rich (read lots of cream and butter!)Southern food once again overwhelmed me. Not that every dish was cholesterol-laden -- try the sweet-sour mouth-tingling pleasure of Fresh Tomato Hash or vinegary Garden Fresh Cucumber Salad, for example. The breads are terrific -- and the main yeast one, Country Loaf Bread, adapted easily to the bread machine, producing a light, tasty, "mile-high" loaf. Fresh Zucchini Bread makes great toast and Our Favorite Raisin Bread, lightly glazed, was perfect with Cheese Soup and that wonderful fruit salad. The sauced Boarding House Meat Loaf pleased everyone, as did Our Famous Pork Ribs, Salmon Loaf, Southern Fried Catfish (AND Chicken, of course)and such beloved side dishes as Yankee Limas, Macaroni and Cheese, Southern Corn Pie and Creole Grits (even my grits-despising Minnesota-bred husband had seconds, Summer Squash Casserole and Our Best Baked Beans. Have only started to re-visit the delights of Southern desserts, sampling Old South Butter Cups and Fresh Strawberry Pie -- more to come! Obviously we can't continue at this rate with daily excursions into this wealth of memories and calories, but I plan to highlight at least one dinner a week with such! With thanks from a Southern California gal with happily-renewed memories of an earlier time and place!

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Summary: Childhood Revisited
Review: Excellent cookbook based on southern cooking. The recipes includes ingredients found in most cupboards. And the instructions are so easy to follow. This is a highly recommended cookbook, I will be giving this for gifts...........

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Summary: Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House Cookbook
Review: Excellent cookbook based on southern cooking. The recipes includes ingredients found in most cupboards. And the instructions are so easy to follow. This is a highly recommended cookbook, I will be giving this for gifts...........

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Summary: buy it!
Review: I had this sudden impulse to start baking everything that I could that would be southern cooking. My husband is from North Carolina, so he is a great critic. I have used this cookbook so many times it is crazy. The desserts are delicious. I love the Salmon Loaf and Meatloaf...gosh everything! I have recently bought a whole library of southern cookbooks and this by far would be my favorite and most used.

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Summary: Why not call it Jack Daniel's Boarding House
Review: I have actually had the opportunity to visit Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House. The only problem I had was that I visited in August and the first available time for a reservation was in December. Everyone in Lynchburg had nothing but wonderful things to say about the Boarding House and the food that is served there. So the next best thing to being able to eat there was to buy Miss Bobo's cookbook. The dish that my family and friends like the best is the Tenderloin Tips. I serve the beef up with a big heap of mashed potatoes and there is total silence because everyone is just enjoying the flavor of the food. I am ordering a copy for a dear friend of mine who is a true southern belle. I cannot wait to present her with her very own copy. The recipes are very easy to follow and you do not have to be a gourmet chef to use any of them. Another neat thing about this cookbook is the wonderful stories and pictures that are included. Miss Bobo had a very interesting life with many interesting visitors. Any American history buff of the 1880's to 1980's would really enjoy reading just the stories.

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Summary: The next best thing to eating at the Miss Mary Bobo's
Review: I have actually had the opportunity to visit Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House. The only problem I had was that I visited in August and the first available time for a reservation was in December. Everyone in Lynchburg had nothing but wonderful things to say about the Boarding House and the food that is served there. So the next best thing to being able to eat there was to buy Miss Bobo's cookbook. The dish that my family and friends like the best is the Tenderloin Tips. I serve the beef up with a big heap of mashed potatoes and there is total silence because everyone is just enjoying the flavor of the food. I am ordering a copy for a dear friend of mine who is a true southern belle. I cannot wait to present her with her very own copy. The recipes are very easy to follow and you do not have to be a gourmet chef to use any of them. Another neat thing about this cookbook is the wonderful stories and pictures that are included. Miss Bobo had a very interesting life with many interesting visitors. Any American history buff of the 1880's to 1980's would really enjoy reading just the stories.

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Summary: Miss Mary Bobo's Cookbook
Review: I have to admit I'm prejudiced because my family was from Lynchburg and I am a Bobo and a Waggoner. I pulled out the book to pick recipes for a traditional southern birthday dinner for my daughter. This is how I knew how to cook. I love to pull out the recipes for a good ole Southern meal in the heat of the summer with lots of iced tea and fresh tomatoes. It's something you can do about once a summer; however, many of the recipes can be used as a special treat with some low fat grilled chicken, etc. Most of my friends up here in Delaware really watch their diets but they chow down on my Southern dishes on holidays. I have given copies to my children and family. My youngest daughter especially likes to pick recipes from this book for any special occasion and loves to make them (and she'll be 27 tomorrow). I was surprised to see Uncle Roughton actually went to the World's Fair, bought Joan a china dog, and paid for her tap dance lessions--we thought he never spent any money. When I was there a few years ago, we met up with someone who had known him and he said he knew Roughton Waggoner--"still owns the first nickle he ever made." He's still famous over forty years after he died. I am back to purchase the book for a young friend who is getting married to a young man whose favorite dish she found out at a recent shower is Swiss Steak. "What is that?" asked all the guests but me. So I am coming to her rescue. This book brings back good Southern memories. There are many excellant recipes. By the way, my relative gave that still to Jack Daniel.

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Summary: Miss Mary Bobo's Cookbook
Review: I have to admit I'm prejudiced because my family was from Lynchburg and I am a Bobo and a Waggoner. I pulled out the book to pick recipes for a traditional southern birthday dinner for my daughter. This is how I knew how to cook. I love to pull out the recipes for a good ole Southern meal in the heat of the summer with lots of iced tea and fresh tomatoes. It's something you can do about once a summer; however, many of the recipes can be used as a special treat with some low fat grilled chicken, etc. Most of my friends up here in Delaware really watch their diets but they chow down on my Southern dishes on holidays. I have given copies to my children and family. My youngest daughter especially likes to pick recipes from this book for any special occasion and loves to make them (and she'll be 27 tomorrow). I was surprised to see Uncle Roughton actually went to the World's Fair, bought Joan a china dog, and paid for her tap dance lessions--we thought he never spent any money. When I was there a few years ago, we met up with someone who had known him and he said he knew Roughton Waggoner--"still owns the first nickle he ever made." He's still famous over forty years after he died. I am back to purchase the book for a young friend who is getting married to a young man whose favorite dish she found out at a recent shower is Swiss Steak. "What is that?" asked all the guests but me. So I am coming to her rescue. This book brings back good Southern memories. There are many excellant recipes. By the way, my relative gave that still to Jack Daniel.

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Summary: Why not call it Jack Daniel's Boarding House
Review: I love Southern cooking but am disgusted by this book. They make mention that Miss Mary Bobo did not allow spirits across her doorway, yet the Jack Daniel's company decided to disregard how the woman was. They even made a point in saying that on dish every meal has Jack Daniels in it. Well the joke is on them, there are several recipes that I wanted to try but they have Jack Daniel's in it. I am just going to leave it out. If you are going to do a cookbook about a boarding house that has been around for generations leave the recipes alone. I borrowed the book from the library to see if I liked it before I bought it. It has saved me some money because I am taking the recipes I want and not wasting my money on the book. It has also saved me from wanting to visit the area since Jack Daniels must own the city of Lynchburg by now.