Damon Lee Fowler

Food * History * Words
My third book

Fried Chicken: The World's Best Recipes, From Memphis to Milan, From Buffalo to Bangkok

Prompted by an angry tirade (from me) at my dinner table, this book celebrated not only my native South's iconic dish, but put it into context with similar dishes from some of the world's great cuisines.

Selected Works

Cookbooks
A Celebration of the Cuisine of the Old South, hailed as a modern classic and Bible of Southern Foodways.
A loving portrait of a proud old port city in recipes
Cookbook
Classical Southern Cooking in today's kitchen
A sampling of the South's Cookery for the hundreds of regional fruits and vegetables.
The cookbook I call my treatise on existentialism.
cookbook
Traditional Southern Baking for modern cooks
Cookbook (editor)
Seventy five recipes that were documented to have been used at Mr. Jefferson's Monticello during his lifetime, translated for use in a modern kitchen, with essays by the Foundation's curatorial staff.

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Web site for the food photographer for two of my cookbooks, Classical Southern Cooking and The Savannah Cookbook
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