Feast on flavor Mississippi style as fifty-three of the Magnolia State's leading cookbooks show us their southern hospitality and share their most popular recipes to create this remarkable collection of over 400 recipes. Taste the superb culinary heritage found in such delightful dishes as Willie Morris' Mamie's Fried Chicken, Red Beans and Rice, Farm-Raised Catfish Williamsburg, Hotel Natchez Bread Pudding, Mississippi Mud Cake, and William Faulkner's own Pappy's Hot-Toddy which he said was guaranteed to cure anything from a horse kick to a bad cold. Best of the Best from Mississippi is one of thirty-five volumes in Quail Ridge Press' acclaimed "Best of the Best" State Cookbook Series -- continuing the tradition of Preserving America's Food Heritage.