Neat, it’s on Amazon. Sounds like it’s a combination of cookbook along with personal stories about early life in Florida. And to top it off, southern cooking! That’s something I’ve been trying to learn since moving to Tennessee.
I don’t see any mention of outdoor cooking in the write up or the reviews. Is this the right one?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0684818787/ref=pd_aw_sim_sbs_14_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=MTN48747TP0QG4E015WW&dpPl=1&dpID=51tNrj4rgAL
or this one?
https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Cookery-Marjorie-Kinnan-Rawlings/dp/0848833414
Or maybe they’re the same, just one is paperback and one is hard back!
Cross Creek Cookery is a brilliant book of Florida Cracker food as well as traditional southern cooking/soul food. Swamp cabbage, alligator, stone crab, brunswick stew, etc., biscuits, cornpone. It also has some Midwest recipes from her mother’s home. I use it for reading more than cooking because I don’t have a cow named Dora like Marjorie did. But I highly recommend it for reference and education and just great armchair reading.
Cross Creek is about the four seasons of the Florida backwoods. The chapter called Our Daily Bread has the most sensuous descriptions of food in all of American literature.
If you like reading fine American literature and can get used, cheap copies, I’d say go for it.