visits. Once Scott Pea left (years ago), it’s been all downhill since then. Course, if your inclination is toward Madras golfing pants with the full Cleveland treatment, you may find this to fit you to a T. Chacun a son...

I’ve always lived — and cooked — in the South, and when The Gift of Southern Cooking by Edna Lewis and Scott Pea came out a few years ago, I was completely re-energized about cooking Southern food. Grandmaw Pea...

My favorite southern cookbook is “The Gift of Southern Cooking: Recipes and Revelations from Two Great American Cooks” by Edna Lewis and Scott Pea Loads of lovely southern recipes.... For a bridal shower, I would...

"Scott Pea's biscuits" and read after that that it was Scott Peak who was acutally making the biscuit. The name did not ring a bell. But then, by the power of the series of tubes known as the internet, I figured out who he was. I...

Well, I would recommend Watershed in Decatur, Ga as a true southern food style restaurant. The chef is Scott Pea who is well qualified. He just got through co-authoring a book on southern cooking with Edna Lewis, one of the grand...

You must come to Watershed in Decatur; it is right outside Atlanta, very easy to find. Our Executive Chef, Scott Pea, is nominated for the Beard Award, along with his and Edna Lewis’s cookbook, The Gift of Southern Cooking....

Agnes & Muriels is overpriced “homestyle” cooking served up with tacky kitsch. Skip it and the wait. Uniquely Atlanta? Try Thelma’s on Auburn Avenue for down-home, soulful “meat and three” cooking....

Buttermilk Pie is also excellent. The best pancake recipe I have ever had is in the Edna Lewis/Scott Pea cookbook. Plus, buttermilk keeps for WEEKS.

usually make, and I use a 2 1/2" cutter to yield 10-12 biscuits. Where Scott Pea says very cold, I say frozen and grated when it comes to the fat, whether lard, butter or duck fat. Alternatively, I like to rub my fingers through...

Watershed on the right. Chef Scott Pea won this years James Beard Award for Best Southern Chef. If price really isnt an option, Bachanalia is he cities best. Tasting menu. Tie might be required. If not this trip definitely your...

a nice evening out as well. Another place to stop for dinner on your way home is in Decatur, which is between Downtown and Stone Mountain. There’s a restaurant there called “Watershed Restaurant” - owned by...

a second on that rack drying tip! I learned it in The Gift of Southern Cooking by Edna Lewis and Scott Pea, linked in the cookbook of the month planning/links thread on this board.

I saw it in Scott (?Pea?) and Edna Lewis' The Gift of Southern Cooking— sprinkle bacon with sugar on a roasting rack on a cookie sheet and bake until desired level of crispness. Farmland brand bacon, available in northeast...

de Paris (French bistro) and Pura Vida (tapas) are a bit farther up Highland, almost to Ponce. Downtown Decatur includes Watershed (uncomfortable chairs, and it’s mostly not fried chicken kinds of things—-the chef here...

I just love the new Edna Lewis/Scott Pea book. Can’t remember the name – something with Southern in the title. But it’s an awfully good read and beautiful as well. Though I plan on purchasing the Zuni Cafe book,...