"Cornbread? I love cornbread!"

If these could be your words, then THE CORNBREAD GOSPELS, Crescent Dragonwagon 's new cookbook (her first in six years) will delight & inspire you. Both the book (named one of the 10 Best of 2007 by Good Morning America) & site offer recipes galore, cornbread stories, inspiration, thoughtfulness, silliness, and so much more. 

Read on. Cook on. Watch, enjoy, get out your cast-iron skillet... the adventure is just beginning.

You might want to check out a few videos for starters:

The Cornbread Flutters Ball

is a YouTube video: five parrots, one cookbook author, whole lotta cornbread. Original music by Bill Haymes. It's joyful to the beak.  For more about the making of this video click here.

Featherbed Eggs Mischeveously Made

join Crescent and a charming anchorman as they make the cornbread-based ne-plus-ultra of do-ahead breakfast dishes on WLS, the Chicago ABC affiliate.
 

 what you'll find here:

♦ excerpts from the book (recipes like Dairy Hollow House Skillet-Sizzled Buttermilk Cornbread )

♦ adjuncts to and extras not in the book (see Second Helpings: The Book & Beyond, plus photos and quotes plus, of course, our wonderful parrot-centric video )

♦ the 411 - complete where-what-and-whens on cooking classes, performances, readings, tastings and booksignings with Crescent Dragonwagon (see Calendar).

♦ more about Crescent, that intrepid Cornbread Cupcake (including the answer to that timeless question " Is that your real name? "). 

♦ news, reviews, and links to an article or two, like these, about CD's take on culinary writing. 

Again, welcome. Sit on down and stay awhile. The cornbread'll be out of the oven in just a minute or two, the beans are simmering.

So glad you dropped in!   

 

♦ the critics cheer (and smack their lips) ♦

"To those of us for whom cornbread is  religion, Crescent Dragonwagon is our  favorite evangelist — her voice engaging  and fiery, inspiring us to diversify our daily bread: from the thin-and-lacy, to the glazed drop scone, to the cheese coin.  But we bet the unconverted will flock to THE CORNBREAD GOSPELS, too, for its wisdom—such as how to cut fresh corn from the cob  and the proper way to store stone-ground cornmeal—and its downright delicious recipes." Matt Lee and Ted Lee, The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook

"Crescent Dragonwagon has found a big  world in a kernel of corn. THE CORNBREAD GOSPLES is a fun, interesting book to read and cook from. There's so much to know about this classic American bread! And her Dixie Spoonbread is here to stay in our kitchen ...  and I suspect many more of her recipes will follow." Deborah Madison, author of Local Flavors, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, The Savory Way and many other cookbooks

 

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