The Blue Willow Inn Cookbook

Voted best small town restaurant for five years in a row by Southern Living magazine, The Blue Willow Inn Cookbook offers delicious Southern recipes, vintage pictures from the early days of Social Circle, Georgia and fascinating anecdotes about the restaurant.

Billie and Louis Van Dyke say that no one is allowed to leave hungry, and certainly no one should after feasting on a variety of Southern dishes and famous drinks such as lemonade and tea, also known as the "Champagne of the South". Housed in a gloriously restored southern mansion, The Blue Willow Inn is home to Southern hospitality and charm at its best.

In The Blue Willow Inn Cookbook, Billie and Louis share delicious recipes such as:

• Fresh Greens and Peas
• Southern Fried Chicken
• Sweet Potato Pie
• Cast-Iron Corn Bread
• Fried Green Tomatoes
• Southern Style Sweet Tea

The greatest restaurants in America are its wonderful independent regional restaurants, and there are no greater experts on America's regional restaurants than Michael and Jane Stern.

The brief stories connect the recipes to The Blue Willow Inn in a charming way and the recipes will make your mouth water. The Blue Willow Inn Cookbook is the perfect guide for creating traditional, Southern style dishes for family and friends.

JANE and MICHAEL STERN are contributing editors to Gourmet,
where they write the James Beard Award-winning monthly column
"Roadfood." They also do a weekly "Two for the Road" segment for The
Splendid Table on public radio. Their Web site, , was
named the best Internet food site by PC Magazine, Forbes, and Yahoo.com.
In 1992 they received a James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award and
were inducted into the Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America.

Chicken and Dumplings, Fried Green Tomatoes, Cornbread, Collard Greens, and Sugared Pecans! By any measure, the Blue Willow Inn in Social Circle, Georgia is as southern as you can get. Proprietor Billie Van Dyke says that no one is allowed to leave hungry, and certainly no one should after feasting on a variety of Southern salads, meats, vegetables, breads and desserts and, of course, sweet tea, the "Champagne of the South," and lemonade. Housed in a gloriously restored southern mansion, The Blue Willow Inn is home to Southern hospitality and charm at its best. The Blue Willow Inn Cookbook offers delicious Southern recipes, vintage pictures from the early days of Social Circle, and fascinating anecdotes about the restaurant. It's a book that's wonderful for reading or for cooking. The greatest restaurants in America are its wonderful independent regional restaurants. And there are no greater experts on America's regional restaurants than Michael and Jane Stern. "Coast to coast," said the New York Times , "they know where to find the freshest lobster rolls, the fluffiest pancakes, the crispiest catfish."

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