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DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to the original matriarchs of my familyGrandmother June, Great-Grandmother Lil, and Great-Grandmother Mildred, affectionately known as Sweetie. You passed down your fierce, driven spirits, and we sense your nurturing and tender hearts in each recipe you left us. You each broke glass ceilings that made it possible for my generation to become the modern Southern woman. Thank you, I dedicate this book to yall.
Text copyright 2021 by Kelsey Barnard Clark.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Clark, Kelsey Barnard, author. | Achilleos, Antonis, photographer.
Title: Southern grit : 100 down-home recipes for the modern cook / Kelsey Barnard Clark ; photographs by Antonis Achilleos.
Description: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2021]. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020050387 | ISBN 9781797205571 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781797205793 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Cooking, American--Southern style. | Cooking--Southern States. | LCGFT: Cookbooks.
Classification: LCC TX715.2.S68 C563 2021 | DDC 641.5975--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020050387
Photography by Antonis Achilleos.
Food styling by Rishon Hanners.
Prop styling by Mindi Shapiro.
Design by Lizzie Vaughan.
Typesetting by Taylor Roy.
Lettering by Jamar Cave.
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Getting Started
Hey yall! I am thrilled to throw my doors open and welcome yall into my little life. I am a chef, mother, wife, plant enthusiast, animal lover, thrifter, MacGyverer, and protector of tradition. I believe in the old way of doing things, but am the first to stand in line for progress and change. I cook the way your grandmother would and am an advocate for a traditional kitchen. I was raised to believe you catch more flies with honey, but I often have the temperament and brashness of a true New Yorker. I was the first to leave home, saying I would never return, and the first to come back. I am a proud Southern woman and aim to make things better than the way I found them.