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Martha Giddens Nesbit provides a contemporary take on Savannah food and parties with a casual appeal. Photographed in and around beautiful historic and modern homes in the city and at Tybee Beach, these great party dishes enhance traditional and fun Savannah celebrations. Chapters include a birthday dinner, christening party, oyster roast, Christmas dinner, and more.

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"Savannah Celebrations includes some of our city's favorite dishes, and I know you'll love Martha's uncomplicated, delicious recipes as much as I do!" -Paula Deen, best-selling author and host of the Food Network shows Paula's Home Cooking, Paula's Party, and Paula's Best Dishes "Martha Nesbit's cookbooks are the touchstone-not just for superb Southern recipes, but for all sorts of food cooked with love and imagination. Nobody knows coastal Southern fare like Martha, which is why I'd recommend, no, insist, that you put Savannah Celebrations on your go-to bookshelf." -Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times best-selling author of Savannah Blues and Deep Dish

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Martha Nesbit has been cooking and writing about food in Savannah, Georgia, for more than three decades. She is familiar with the city's fanciest soiries-balls, weddings, and coming-out parties-and she's also been privy to intimate at-home celebrations where simple, delicious food is served in the splendor that only a Savannah setting can provide. This book is a collection of 16 of those special Savannah-style dining fetes, with more than 150 tried and-true Low Country recipes that have been perfected through years of trial and error. Only the best dishes are included here, from the christening party's Tomato Pie to the birthday dinner's Coconut Pound Cake and the Gullah meal's Spicy Deviled Crab and Okra and Tomatoes. Nesbit focuses on ingredients that are easy to find and easy on the pocketbook. She pulls together the entire menu so that you don't have to worry about how the dishes will taste or look side by side. Every menu is a winner! Featured alongside photographs of picturesque Savannah homes and scenes, these parties, menus, and recipes will inspire every reader to plan a simple celebration at home.

Author Biography

Martha Giddens Nesbit served as food editor, food columnist, and restaurant reviewer for the Savannah Morning News for twenty-five years and has been a regular food columnist for Savannah Magazine since 1998. She has collaborated with Paula Deen on four cookbooks. She lives in Savannah with her husband. Erin Adams's portfolio includes food, architecture, and editorial work. She studied art at the Art Institute of Colorado and developed her personal style working in the commercial photography industry in Boston before returning to her native Savannah.

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"Savannah Celebrations includes some of our city's favorite dishes, and I know you'll love Martha's uncomplicated, delicious recipes as much as I do!" -Paula Deen, best-selling author and Food Network personality "Nobody knows coastal Southern fare like Martha, which is why I'd recommend, no, insist, that you put Savannah Celebrations on your go-to bookshelf." -Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times best-selling author of Savannah Blues and Deep Dish Classy and contemporary, simple yet sophisticated, this collection of recipes presents Savannah food in spectacular settings. The result of Martha Nesbit's more than three decades of entertaining, this resource includes everything the host will need to know to put together a party at home without the services of a caterer. From Chicken Tetrazzini for a casual bridge supper to Dottie's Baked Beans fit for a tailgate party and Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie for a holiday dinner, party dishes for all occasions are presented accompanied by gorgeous photographs taken in and around historic and modern homes in the area. Chapters include menus for a christening party, oyster roast, Fourth of July cookout, and more. Tips on creating a menu, perfectly timing the day of the event, and shopping lists are among the other highlights that will inspire readers to invite people into their homes, share a meal, and make memories.

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