Wanna see the Southern Plate Cookbook before anyone else?
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Today, I’m so excited to bring you an EXCLUSIVE sneak peek at the cover and the inside of my cookbook before anyone else sees it!
Southern Plate: Classic Comfort Food That Makes Everyone Feel Like Family
Some amazingly talented people have worked very hard on this book and I want to give special thanks to the photography team and my wonderful publishers at Harper Collins! Today I’m also going to show you a glimpse of the interior, right off the design boards! These are the sample designs of the interior, they aren’t finalized yet (you’ll notice the page numbers aren’t there and it’s only a sampling of a few pages so we could get a feel for the final product) but I knew you’d be just as tickled as I was to see them firsthand. I’ve been DYING wanting to show you the book and I’d love to hear back from you – I hope you love it as much as I do!
If you’d like to see the inside (oh my, SO EXCITED about the inside!) click below.
To preview the initial design layout samples hot off the presses, click here.
The book is already available for pre-order. We don’t have all of the extras up there yet (See how neat it is that you can see them here first?) but you can click here or on the book cover to pre-order your copy now and have it delivered to your home as soon as it debuts in October. All pre-order sales count towards the first week’s sales so if we get enough pre-orders our book could actually debut on the lists with all the other “big boys”. I say “our book” because I really do think of this book as yours and mine. I even dedicated the book to you (in my usual long winded fashion), but you’ll have to see the actual book to read that. You know who I’m talking about when I say “big boys”, the fancy schmancy cookbooks that have all those ingredients we can’t pronounce! ~grins~.
Our cookbook features over 160 recipes, all from my family to yours and yes, many of them will be exclusive to the cookbook (never before published on Southern Plate) but per your feedback, I was sure to include many of your Southern Plate favorites as well so you could have them all in one handy place. I even have a whole section in there on gravies- Of course I have red-eye!
I tried to write the “go to” cookbook I’ve always wanted to have when it comes to simple, old fashioned recipes that I grew up with and I could not be happier with the finished product. In this day and age of entire networks dedicated to food – I think most of us just want to come home to the kind of meal our Mama’s and Grandmama’s made, put on the table by someone who loves us. I’ve included the stories with every recipe so you know where it came from, why I love it so much, and why I think you’ll like it to. This isn’t just a cookbook with ingredients and instructions, it’s a collection of recipes and remembrances shared with you just like a friend would.
I hope you’ll feel as if you’re sitting at my table chatting with me when you read it because that is just where my heart was as I wrote it.
More Great News! (click more to read)
Harper Collins has moved our book to a larger imprint. Southern Plate will now be printed under William Morrow! Some amazing books have been published under this imprint and I’m honored to be among them.
The William Morrow folks are new to the Southern Plate Family so I’d dearly love it if you’d say “hi” to them in the comments section of this post and let them know how much we all appreciate their faith in us and our book!
“Southerners like to feed people. Doing so nourishes the soul of the giver.”
Thank you William Morrow. We love Christy, and are sure everyone else will, too.
On the Summer Days and Family reunions page, in the second line in the body of the copy, there is a space between the m and the o in month. (I know I’m terrible. Just spent way too many years working at a local newspaper. Sometimes mistakes just jump out at me.)
Also, Christy, is there a story behind the name of Granny’s Sheath Cake, that it is called a sheath cake instead of a sheet cake?
The cookbook is going to be great. Can hardly wait!!
hehe, it is called Sheath cake, thats what the old folks called it. There actually is a story behind it, I gotta call Mama to get my facts straight though! lol
Can’t wait to read it. Love your stories!
Thank you so much Christy, for all that you are and the joy and laughter you spread. I check SouthernPlate every day during my “break time” @ work – you make us smile for sure.
And you better make sure to include a Yankee Stop, such as my St. Louis, on your book tour – we all want to hug ya’ll. 🙂
Oh I can’t wait for this to come out! I keep telling everybody about your blog, now I can show off your book!
Hi Christie! I’ve been following your website since this past summer…but have never commented before. After looking at the cookbook preview, my heart just feels so happy for you! What an accomplishment. I’ve made several of your recipes and have loved them. My 2 1/2 year old son helped me make the snowman cocoa and he had so much fun giving it as Christmas gifts! I’m so excited to order your cookbook. Best of luck! And….we’d love to see you in Lubbock, TX for a book signing!
Cookbook looks fantabulous!! THANK YOU William Morrow and HarperCollins for publishing it.
Christie – how does your Bradybug feel about getting less face on the cover than his sister does?? I know that would be World War III in my house! (And do your kids really drink iced tea? Mine would LOVE to, but I like to keep all that sweet goodness for myself, hee hee!)
Congrats again, and I can’t wait to buy a copy!
Funny you should ask that, Donna! lol I sent an email to my editors (bless them a thousand times over!) about that and to make up for it, they are adding in a special photo of Brady by himself in the book! It is a great photo and certain siblings don’t have a photo by themselves so he was more than thrilled!
Mine really do drink tea all of the time! I make it with Splenda, though. I can’t drink sugar so you will seldom find any beverages with sugar in the house.
Thank you so much!!
Gratefully,
Christy 🙂
Oh my lawd…such a beautiful book full of homespun love & southern charm!! I cant wait to get my hands on it & thank you soo much Christy for sharing the early sneak peeks!! You sure look purdy in pink!! Waves hello to your great publishing team too!! This book will be a Beehive Treasure =)
Sending out all my love from Birmingham Alabama ya’ll!
Mary
Just pre-ordered your cookbook. Noticed the release date is Oct.5, got your other cookbook for my birthday Oct.3, 2008 from the family. Just bought myself a early birthday present.
It’s becoming a reality! Hey publishers, you can’t go wrong with a southern cook! I love the picture of you in the pink apron. You’re a cutie. I’m ordering mine too. Can’t wait to get it. Hugs from this southern gal transplanted out here in Kansas!