Lots of interesting recipes to try. The book wasn't quite what I thought it would be. Very heavy on recipe content and less on text. That's not a bad thing but not what I expected. Not being from the South I always wonder how tongue-in-cheek these books are meant to be. Are they really poking fun at themselves? I know this reflects some lifestyle points of people in the South but I can't take it too seriously. And as a "Yankee" if I am not meant to take it seriously then what is the point of making fun of Southern funeral culture?