Pecans: a Savor the South cookbook

“Show me a recipe with pecans, and I have to try it.” Attributing her own love of this American nut to the state of her birth — Georgia is the nation’s leader in growing pecans — and to the happy fact that her mother “hardly made a cookie, candy, or pan of Sunday dressing without them,” Kathleen Purvis teaches readers how to find, store, cook, and completely enjoy this southern delicacy. Pecans includes fifty-two recipes, ranging from traditional to inventive, from uniquely southern to dist...