LITTLE ROCK — Looking for more uses for that box of Corn Flakes in your pantry? The Branded Cookbook: 85 Recipes for the World’s Favorite Food Brands by Nick Sandler and Johnny Acton ($24.95, Kyle Books) puts them to work in a recipe for fish sticks.
The book helps home cooks use brand-name products in new, creative recipes - think Coca-Cola Cake, pad Thai using Skippy peanut butter, or Nutella brownies.
The book includes recipes for 17 brand-name products from around the world, with a chapter devoted to each.
For those who just can’t get enough of the recent wave of Southern-themed cookbooks, Joan E. Aller’s Cider Beans, Wild Greens and Dandelion Jelly: Recipes From Southern Appalachia($27.99, Andrews McMeel) includes more than 100 recipes with appetizing, homey photographs of the food and the landscape, with many of the recipes dating to the 1800s. A southern Appalachian dictionary shows the author doesn’t take herself too seriously. A map of the region is a nice bonus - the book focuses on recipes from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida and Tennessee.
Worth investigating: old fashioned root beer, corn cob jelly and an appetizer called Mississippi Sin that’s made with French bread, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, cooked ham, sour cream and a holy trinity of sweet onion, bell pepper and Worcestershire sauce.
Food, Pages 34 on 07/21/2010