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.
We lived with my aunt until I was six or seven, and one of my best memories is the occasional Brunswick Stew Week. I don’t know how long it took her or how much she made, but it was delicious and the house smelled SO good.