Southern Country Cooking from The Loveless Cafe by Jane & Michael Stern is a delightful hardback book with 210 pages of country goodness with scattered black and white photos throughout and a section of colored photographs with descriptions. It is published by Rutledge Hill Press.

I like this cookbook! It has several pages of reading plus down to earth southern cooking! The kinds of foods I grew up on. Country character is what this cookbook and the cafe is all about. Situated on Highway 100 in Nashville Tennessee Loveless cafe has a long history. From the forties when it was a party house with the largest hardwood living room floor around where they could dance the night away to the fifties when it became a tea room to the Loveless Cafe in the severnties this has been a popular Cafe for travelers and locals of Nashville.

It's an interesting cookbook. Not only will you find recipes but there are many good reading pages on:
Carol Fay Ellison (the biscuit lady)
Country Ham
Ed Castleman (used to live in the home that is now the cafe)
Tom Morales (owner of the Loveless Cafe)
Grand Ole Opry (pages to read and a couple of B/W photos) lots of stars have eaten there.
Mary Elizabeth Roberts (one of the main employees)
Michael Maxwell (the food guy)
George Harvel (the smoke guy)
Randy Williams (general manager)
Linda Furlow (cook)
Marie Barrett (waitress)
Alisa Huntsman (pastry chef)
Natchez Trace (hunting and travel route)

It is divided into several chapters including:

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction to the Loveless Cafe and info on the Cafe & Motel
Drinks
Breakfasts & Breads
Dressings, Relishes & Preserves
Salads & Slaws
Gravies, Sauces & Rubs
Soups
Main Dishes
Side Dishes
Desserts
Index

A few of the delicious sounding recipes you'll find include: Watermelon Punch, Eggs Loveless with Tomato Gravy, Candied Bacon, Hot Pineapple, Corn Relish, Sour Slaw, Ribbon Salad, Red-Eye Gravy, Black-Eyed Pea & Country Ham Chowder, Grilled Doves, Fried Green Tomato BLT's, Meatloaf, Lib's Chow Chow, Broccoli Chicken Casserole, Snickerdoodles, Chocolate Biscuit Budding, Fudge Pie, Hummingbird Cake, Chess Squares, and tons more!

You can check out this cookbook at the Loveless Cafe and Motel site at www.lovelesscafe.com (go to online store) and there is a lot of interesting information there or get it at www.thomasnelson.com.