The Best Cookbooks for Southerners in 2020

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The Best Cookbooks for Southerners in 2020

Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou, by Melissa M. Martin

Before baking these sweet potato biscuits or these pillowcase cookies, stirring this jambalaya, or gathering ingredients for any of the other delightfully Deep South recipes in this book, find a cozy chair and rejoice in the photographer Denny Culbert’s evocative images and the chef Melissa M. Martin’s poetic storytelling. “Louisiana’s coast, a thick, ever-changing blanket of marsh, is disappearing, and our wetlands and bayous are disappearing along with it,” writes Martin, the daughter of a fisherman and granddaughter of oyster farmers, who penned an ode to her home during hurricane season. “I want to make sure we put the Cajun food I grew up with and the people responsible for it on record.”