Butter beans to blackberries

In this definitive cookbook, Ronni Lundy taps her Kentucky roots and the recipes and food passions of fellow Southernersincluding both home cooks and professional chefsshe met in her travels through the region. As she cooks her way through succulent purple-speckled butter beans, lady cream peas, corn, greens, muscadines, peaches, figs, mayhaws, and other bounty from the Southern garden, she passes along a trove of easy-to-follow recipes that will delight both Southerners who are rediscovering their cuisine and newcomers to it.