Self-Rising

The Magic Rise Behind Biscuit and Cornbread Culture

Mindy Merrell, R.B. Quinn, Linda Carman (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2026
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-1-9859-0334-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Self-Rising: The Magic Rise Behind Biscuit and Cornbread Culture reveals how a combination of simple ingredients sparked a quiet culinary and cultural revolution. Self-rising flour and cornmeal—pre-mixed blends of flour or meal, baking powder, and salt—freed home cooks from the guesswork of from-scratch baking and transformed everyday cooking. Throughout the twentieth century, in times of poverty, segregation, electrification, and sweeping change, few inventions gave women more control over their time and table.

Part historical narrative, part cookbook, this flavorful account starts in Tennessee, the ""self-rising capital of the world,"" and travels across the southern US. The first half explores how self-rising products not only helped reshape the domestic sphere but further influenced society, culture, and industry. Grain mills, vitamin boosts, and flour-sack fashion made self-rising a Southern staple. Radio jingles, blues tunes, and Grand Ole Opry broadcasts spread the word. The second half of the book offers a rich collection of timeless, fool-proof recipes built for modern kitchens, like chicken and dumplings, fried pickle chips, chewy brownies, and apple crisp.

Entertaining and insightful, Self-Rising offers readers a story of nourishment, invention, and resilience told through cornbread skillets, biscuit cutters, and the spirit of Southern cooks.

Autor

Mindy Merrell has devoted her 30+ year career to communicating good ideas to home cooks. She is the co-author of Cheater BBQ, as well as two Jack Daniel’s cookbooks.Merrell is the former Drive Thru Review columnist for the Tennessean and recipe columnistfor NFocus magazine. She is a Land Grant University home economics major from Virginia Tech with a deep respect for self-rising biscuits and cornbread thanks to years of working as a young publicist with Linda Carman and the Martha White Test Kitchen in Nashville. Merrell is also a 2014 winner of the show, Chopped. R.B. Quinn is an attorney, historian, and writer. He is the coauthor of Cheater BBQ: Barbecue Anytime, Anywhere, in Any Weather and former columnist for The Tennessean and NFocus Magazine. Linda Carman was the long-time consumer affairs director, test kitchen director, and bakingconsultant for the Martha White Kitchen in Nashville until her retirement in 2018. She lives inCullman, Alabama.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.6.2026
• Zusatzinfo: 53 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 216 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Grundkochbücher
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Themenkochbücher
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-9859-0334-2 / 1985903342
• ISBN-13: 978-1-9859-0334-0 / 9781985903340
• Zustand: Neuware