Happy Table of Eugene Walter

A southern Renaissance man, Eugene Walter (19211998) was a pioneering food writer, a champion of southern foodways and culture, and a legendary personality among food lovers. The Happy Table of Eugene Walter, which introduces a new generation of readers to Walters culinary legacy, is a revelation to anyone interested in todays booming scene in vintage and artisanal drinks from bourbon and juleps to champagne and punch and a southern twist on Americas culinary heritage.Assembled and edited by Walters literary executor, Donald Goodman, and food writer Thomas Head, this charming cookbook includes more than 300 recipes featuring the use of spirits in the food and drink of the South, as well as numerous asides, lovely short essays, and countless witticisms that make for great reading as well as good cooking. A wellspring of southern eating and drinking traditions lovingly collected by Walter over the years, the volume is also a celebration of Walter himself and his incomparable appetite and talent for life and its surprising pleasures. The Happy Table showcases Walters remarkably contemporary gustatory sensibilities and the humorous and quirky yet incisive voice for which he has long been embraced.