“Eat your vegetables” is a phrase that will never need to be spoken again with a copy of Mastering the Art of Southern Vegetables in hand. Authors of this tasty new cookbook, Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart have crafted 120 vegetable recipes that bring Southern cooking to the kitchen table. To perfect each recipe, the co-authors traveled through the South to learn how vegetables are grown, and how to enhance their flavors with new techniques and ingredients-- all while retaining the traditional recipes.

Building on their reputation as James Beard Award winners, Dupree and Graubart excerpted their best vegetable recipes (plus added some new ones) in this timely collection. Organized alphabetically by vegetable, the book shows how to prepare and cook each vegetable, and then presents favorite new and classic recipes, such as, roasted and grilled asparagus, easy corn and squash pudding, and stuffed squash and zucchini boats. Also included are flavor-enhancing vinaigrettes and sauces, and a chart for roasting an array of vegetables.