Around the Southern Table: Coming Home to Comforting Meals and Treasured Memories (Southern Living) - Hardcover

Rebecca Lang is a professionally trained chef, a lifelong Southerner, a food writer and blogger, the author of three cookbooks, a contributing editor for Southern Living and MyRecipes.com and a Southern cooking expert featured weekly on the nationally syndicated TV show Daytime, which airs in 85 million households.

She learned to cook at her grandmother's heels, apprenticed with legendary Southern chef Nathalie Dupree and earned a culinary arts degree from Johnson and Wales University. She worked as an assistant food editor for Oxmoor House in Birmingham, Ala., before returning to Athens, Georgia.

Her Quick-Fix Southern (Andrews McMeel, March 2011) went into a second printing even before its official launch. Her previous books include Mary Mac's Tea Room (Looking Glass Books, 2005) and Southern Entertaining for a New Generation (Cumberland House, 2004). Her blog, rebeccalangcooks.com, has been featured on the James Beard Foundation's Delights and Prejudices and twice in the Food News Journal's Best of the Blogs. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including The Atlanta Journal Constitution.

She serves her own family at the same dining room table where her precious grandmother, Tom, enjoyed decades of meals with her ten siblings.

"Rebecca Lang is continuing to define Southern food for a generation. Around the Southern Table is a great addition to the shelf of cookbooks you actually use. It's a table replete with local goodness and smart, current sustenance, set with great recipes and marked with sage asides."

Hugh Acheson
James Beard Award-winning author of A New Turn in the South

"Well, I'd pull up a chair to Rebecca Lang's table and stay there all day if she'd let me. She sets forth vibrant concepts with easy-to-follow recipes. Hats off."


Martha Hall Foose, James Beard Award-winning author of Screen Doors and Sweet Tea and A Southerly Course

"Around the Southern Table brings heirloom furniture, comfort food and family together. With this sincere cookbook, Rebecca Lang graciously welcomes you to sit down at her delicious Southern table."


Chef John Besh, Acclaimed New Orleans chef and author of My Family Table


"Around the Southern Table is the treat of treats, a collection of classic Southern recipes given the most imaginative spins. The food photographs are so luscious, you'll want to fork them right off the page."


Jean Anderson
Author of A Love Affair with Southern Cooking and From a Southern Oven: The Savories, The Sweets