Ham Bones is a trip down memory lane growing up in South Carolina and enjoying terrific southern cuisine. Many of the recipes have short stories that detail the need for the author to include them. Through those short stories you get a chance to meet the author's family members that are an integral part of these recipe choices. Ham Bones takes down-home southern dishes and present them with class and sophistication that would be delectable prepared in the home or in any five-star restaurant served on the best of fine china Ham Bones says to the world, southern food is world-class cuisine Ham Bones is destined to become a classic reference cookbook for southern food Ham Bones introduces the reader to new recipes using familiar southern ingredients-- Red River Beef Stew . . . Baked Neck bones . . . Medallions of Venison Flambe . . . Hunter's Pie . . . Corn Sausage Casserole . . . Hardwood Ham with Jamaican Rum Glaze . . . Hot Steppin' John . . . Orange-glazed Cornish Game Hens . . . Chicken in Celery Cream . . . Turkey Wings Margo . . . Broiled Salmon Cakes . . . Carolina Bouillabaisse . . . Roast Chicken with Plum Chutney . . . Duck 'n Grits with Cointreau Butter . . . Pineapple-Orange Firecracker Glaze . . . White Chocolate Walnut Ice Cream . . . Peaches Vera . . . Coconut Cream Dressing . . . Daddy's Bread Pudding with Bourbon Cream . . . Texas Crunch Cake . . . Broiled Catfish Piccata . . . Roast Pork with Plum Glaze . . . Ali Baba's Persian Rice . . . Brown Sugar Buttermilk Pound Cake . . . Blueberry Cream Pie . . . Curried Beef with Sherry . . . Red Pepper Savory Biscuits . . . Rice Barbados . . . Aunt Sister's Kentucky Wonders . . . Collard Greens and Peppers . . . Creamy Summer Soup . . . Carolina Bisque . . . Cranberry-Orange Pecan Rice . . . any many many more Ham Bones elevates southern dishes to their proper place on the world stage of culinary excellence "