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The Way Home: A Celebration of Sea Islands Food and Family with over 100 Recipes
The breakout star of Food Network's hit show Delicious Miss Brown celebrates the Gullah/Geechee culinary traditions of her family in this spectacular cookbook featuring 125 original mouthwatering recipes and gorgeous four-color photos.
In April 2015, Kardea Brown made a leap of faith, quitting her job as a social worker in New Jersey to pursue a career in the food industry. She opened the New Gullah Supper Club, a restaurant and social destination centered around the food she grew up eating at her grandmother's house on South Carolina's Wadmalaw Island.
After an appearance on Food Network, Kardea caught the attention of executives at the cooking channel and over the course of nearly four hardworking years became a star-sparring with chefs on hit shows like Beat Bobby Flay and hosting Cupcake Championship. Viewers fell in love with her Southern warmth, love of family, and awe-inspiring New Gullah meals, and Kardea quickly landed her own show, the top-rated Delicious Miss Brown.
In this, her first cookbook, Kardea shares her multi-generational "passed down" recipes and innovative takes on Gullah classics with home cooks everywhere. "Gullah" and "GeeChee" refer to a distinct group of African Americans living in the coastal areas of South Carolina and Georgia who have preserved much of their West African language, culture, and cuisine. The Way Home is an unabashed love letter to her family's roots, packed with dishes that combine West African herbs, spices, and grains with traditional Southern cooking. "Gullah people laid the foundation for Southern cooking. Before farm-to-table was a fad, it was what Gullah people did," Kardea explains. "I want to show the world that soul food is not monolithic. It's so much more than fried chicken and vegetables cooked in pork. It's seasonal, fresh and delicious! "
Filled with more than 100 mouth-watering recipes for starters, main courses, sides, desserts, and more, The Way Home brings a taste of the Lowcountry South home, offering flavor-packed dishes everyone will enjoy such as:
She-Crab Soup
Seafood Potato Salad
Crabcake Benedict
Smoked Pasta Salad
Savory Bread Pudding
Peach Dump Cake
Blood Orange Salmon
Smothered Chicken
Low Country Spaghetti
Sweet Potato Cheesecake
Kardea flavors her recipes with cherished family anecdotes, memories, and helpful tips. A perfect blend of the modern and the traditional, The Way Home honors her proud heritage and shows off her own signature class and sass. The result is a marvelous, big-hearted collection of recipes and stories that will nourish you, body and soul.
In April 2015, Kardea Brown made a leap of faith, quitting her job as a social worker in New Jersey to pursue a career in the food industry. She opened the New Gullah Supper Club, a restaurant and social destination centered around the food she grew up eating at her grandmother's house on South Carolina's Wadmalaw Island.
After an appearance on Food Network, Kardea caught the attention of executives at the cooking channel and over the course of nearly four hardworking years became a star-sparring with chefs on hit shows like Beat Bobby Flay and hosting Cupcake Championship. Viewers fell in love with her Southern warmth, love of family, and awe-inspiring New Gullah meals, and Kardea quickly landed her own show, the top-rated Delicious Miss Brown.
In this, her first cookbook, Kardea shares her multi-generational "passed down" recipes and innovative takes on Gullah classics with home cooks everywhere. "Gullah" and "GeeChee" refer to a distinct group of African Americans living in the coastal areas of South Carolina and Georgia who have preserved much of their West African language, culture, and cuisine. The Way Home is an unabashed love letter to her family's roots, packed with dishes that combine West African herbs, spices, and grains with traditional Southern cooking. "Gullah people laid the foundation for Southern cooking. Before farm-to-table was a fad, it was what Gullah people did," Kardea explains. "I want to show the world that soul food is not monolithic. It's so much more than fried chicken and vegetables cooked in pork. It's seasonal, fresh and delicious! "
Filled with more than 100 mouth-watering recipes for starters, main courses, sides, desserts, and more, The Way Home brings a taste of the Lowcountry South home, offering flavor-packed dishes everyone will enjoy such as:
She-Crab Soup
Seafood Potato Salad
Crabcake Benedict
Smoked Pasta Salad
Savory Bread Pudding
Peach Dump Cake
Blood Orange Salmon
Smothered Chicken
Low Country Spaghetti
Sweet Potato Cheesecake
Kardea flavors her recipes with cherished family anecdotes, memories, and helpful tips. A perfect blend of the modern and the traditional, The Way Home honors her proud heritage and shows off her own signature class and sass. The result is a marvelous, big-hearted collection of recipes and stories that will nourish you, body and soul.
Readers Top Reviews
Shanna23 22Diana
I've watched Kardea on The Food Network and her food always looks delicious so I had to get her cookbook. It did not disappoint, so many great recipes that are easy to make and taste fantastic. She includes traditional southern recipes and elevated classics. No matter what your taste, you'll find lots of great recipes in this book include desserts and drinks!
Sara MartinShanna
These are some phenomenal recipes I love watching your show each week wish you would come to a book signing in Minnesota maybe at the Mall of America I would be the 1st one in line I'm a fellow Chef and work at a school feeding 800 kids everyday.. I love reading your family history and learning about the Southern ways of cooking
Elizabeth Ogunban
I love this cookbook, the recipes are easy to follow. The pictures of the food is clear and looks so good. You can almost taste it. I have been waiting for Miss Brown to do a recipe book, cause I watch her on TV and she make’s everything look so easy. Plus it is food I love and I can make for my family. Thank you ! Delicious Miss Brown.
Lonnie HessElizab
I own a lot of cookbooks. This one is very special. Kardea Brown has written a gem chocked full of easy Gullah and Southern recipes. This book and the content within is totally relatable. These are foods that I want on my table at home. The recipes call for ingredients that are readily available. There are a lot of gorgeous photos of the finished product. Out of all the books I’ve collected over the years this is the first one where I’ve ever read the entire introduction. Please don’t skip it. It provides so much insight into Kardea and her rich heritage. I adore this book!
Tee RLonnie HessE
I love the background story of the Gullah people from the low country. My family is from the low country as well however growing up in NYC I did not have the authentic food from my family. Now I can make my own and I absolutely love it!! So far I have made the red rice, bread pudding and the restaurant pasta and they were all amazing. *(I did substitute the pork in the red rice recipe to beef kabalska). The illustrations are colorful and will make you want to cook each day.
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