How much do I love the Loveless Cafe? So much that I’d sample six desserts on the restaurant’s porch . . . then stay another hour for fried chicken, green beans and biscuits? You betcha!
I can tell you from personal experience that the desserts from Tennessee’s own Loveless Cafe are divine (especially the banana pudding and the cobblers and—well—all of it). You can see me swooning over the sweets, and chatting with Loveless pastry chef Alisa Huntsman, in this video:
Alisa’s new cookbook, Desserts from the Famous Loveless Cafe, is BookPage’s September cookbook of the month. Cooking columnist Sukey Howard writes: “Although your mama may never have baked a Double Coconut Cream Pie, Blueberry Skillet Cobbler or Lady Lemon Squares, the Loveless legacy is now yours.” This year marks the restaurant’s 60th anniversary.
Want to try making Double Coconut Cream Pie, Blueberry Skillet Cobbler or Lady Lemon Squares for yourself? Here’s how you can win your own copy of the cookbook . . .
TO ENTER: Leave a comment on this post with the name of your favorite cookbook.
CONTEST DETAILS: Two winners will be chosen by random.org from among entries received by 6 pm CST on September 23. The winners will each receive a hardback copy of Desserts from the Famous Loveless Cafe by Alisa Huntsman. This prize must be shipped to a North American address.
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ETA: Congratulations to our winners, Ann and Katherine! Ann’s favorite cookbook is The New Basics Cookbook by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins, and Katherine loves The Fannie Farmer Cookbook by Marion Cunningham.
Thank you to all who entered! Contest is now closed.
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Bread of Life, our church’s last published cookbook. I’ve sampled many of the recipes at potlucks, so I know the really good ones.
America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook
Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book (1950 edition)
the Moosewood Cafe series
Giada’s Family Dinners
The Pioneer Woman
My favorit cookbook was published by my cousin’s church in 1979. It is called “The Morris Chapel Cookbook”.
Irma Rombauer’s The Joy of Cooking
I enjoy using “More from Magnolia” by Allysa Torey.
The Joy of Cooking
I love Melissa Clark’s cookbook/memoir In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite. Lovely stories and delicious recipes.
I like the Tase of Home cookbook.
the joy of cooking
I love The Joy of Cooking !
How To Cook Everything
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream and Rick Bayless’s Mexican Kitchen and Mexico One Plate at a Time.
The Joy of Living cookbook!
The Moosewood Cookbook carries me through lots of good meals!
The Joy of Cooking – a classic.
I love all the Taste of Home Cookbooks. I can’t pick a favorite because I have used them all. The recipes are easy to do for the home cook.
Anything by the King Arthur, but especially the King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion Cookbook.
Guy Fieri Food: Cookin’ It, Livin’ It, Lovin’ It
Farm To Fork by Emeril LaGasse!
My favorite cook book is The Southern Living,annual recipes…but my best everyday one is from our Baptist Church,the locals ones have what people around here eat at dinners..this Loveless Cafe,looks great and just down my alley…
Martha Stewart’s Cooking School. I refer to it all the time!
The Pioneer Woman by Ree Drummond!
My favorite recipe book would be The Taste of Home and Pillsbury cookbooks….I think the “Loveless Cafe” would be my Favorite now,makes me drool,over all those goodies,wish we could have samples.
How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman.
Big Book of Breakfast,
or Healthy Cooking magazine…
or any church cookbook, always chock full of great
home cooking!
My favorite cookbook is Crockery Cookery. It’s hard to mess things up in a crock pot and if you plan ahead, dinner is waiting when you get home from work.
I like using my 30 minute meals cookbook.
I love the Quick & Easy Cookbooks Series
happy herbivore
I have two – Goddess in the Kitchen and Knead It, Punch It, Bake It.
The New Basics Cookbook by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins, authors of The Silver Palate Cookbook and The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook.
I love the Gooseberry cookbooks. They are filled with down home, mostly basic ingredients, recipes. However, I am now just drooling over “Desserts From the Famous Loveless Cafe” cookbook and would love to own it ( I am also married to a Southerner from S.C. who loves for me to make his Southern desserts).
“Crazy Sista Cooking: Cuisine and Conversation with Lucy Anne Buffett” Such a great book and her restaurant serves it all!
I have this cookbook called I <3 Sugar. As someone who is still learning to cook/bake it is nice starting with the basics.
I have this cookbook called I <3 Sugar. As someone who is still learning to cook/bake it is nice starting with the basics. One day I would love to be able to 'whip something up' and have it be delicious both in taste and appearance.
My favorite cookbook is from my children’s school. It is called :Wheelock Cook Book” I love it because I know my kids will eat whatever I make. However, we all LOVE cake!!
My favorite cookbook is my “Better Homes and Garden New Cookbook” that my godmother gave me as a child well over 55 years ago for what my little brother used to call my “hopeless chest.” It is battered, stained and very precious. It has the best down to earth basic cooking essential information with wonderful go-to recipes that I still use to this day.
It’s got to be Better Homes and Gardens. I use it more than any other cookbook I have.
Any and all of the Southern Living Annual cookbooks. These books include all the recipes from that year’s magazines. Additionally Southern Living includes recipes are one of the best collection of southern cooking, the old south and the new south.
My nephew the chef loves the Original Joy of Cooking. I prefer the Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook (1950 edition), The New York Times Cookbook (1961 edition) and The Fannie Merritt Farmer Boston Cooking School Cookbook.
Big Mama’s Back in the Kitchen
You have to try: Gran’s Oyster Fritters with the Bayou Salad, follow with the Me-Oh-My-Oh Crawfish Pie.then finish either the Praline Pan Cake or the Sweet Potato Spice Pound Cake. Whoo-eee!!!
Big Mama’s Back in the Kitchen
You have to try: Gran’s Oyster Fritters with the Bayou Salad, follow with the Me-Oh-My-Oh Crawfish Pie.then finish either the Praline Pan Cake or the Sweet Potato Spice Pound Cake. Whoo-eee!!!
Taste of Home Ultimate Ground Beef Cookbook!
My “go to” cookbook is Best Recipes by Christopher Kimball
My favorite cookcook is ‘THE JOY OF COOKING’ — should I be embarrassed about that also? It may not be exotic, but it never left me down…
My favorite cookbook is one that was put together by a group called the Crab Creek Cacklers back in the 1960s as a fundraiser. The recipes are from women who were friends of my husband’s mother. They lived in the Lower Crab Creek area near Smyrna and Royal City, Washington and many of them were early homesteaders there.
The Walt Disney World Cookbook!
The one cookbook I consult the most is Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything. I also love Barefoot Contessa for her relative simple and delicious recipes!
Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook (12th ed.)-it’s my never-fail cookbook that I go back to time and again.
My favorite Better Homes and Gardens cookbook was a wedding gift in 1957 that I still consult occasionally. It is so well used, it’s held together with a rubber band.
Mark Bittman’s “How to Cook Everything”
Anything that Ina Gartin publishes
Anything by Ina Gartin
Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook
Christmas is coming…
Better Homes & Gardens, “New Cook Book”…..a classic..
My mom had all the “Southern Living” cookbooks from 1990-1999 in our house growing up. Those win for me.
” The Flavors of Mackinac ” Mackinac Island’s local recipes books that supports our medical center!!!
Cinch by Cynthia Sass. It’s technically a diet/nutrition book but the recipes are great and easy!
I go through favorite stages; my current is Everyday Food: Great Food Fast by Martha Stewart Living Magazine because the recipes are simple, the layout is very user-friendly and there is always a color photo to show what the dish should look like! I also often refer to Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison and the classic Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition. I have already placed a request at my library for Loveless Cafe………………..yum!
My go-to cookbook is the classic Better Homes & Gardens cookbook–the one with the red and white cover.
I like the Taste of Home Annual recipes book of 2004.
Thank you for the giveaway. My favorite cookbook is The Southern Living Cookbook.
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I like most all of the Taste of Home’s annual books. There are lots of great, easy dishes in them.
The age old favorite – Better Homes & Gardens cookbook!
Wow, picking my favorite cookbook is like asking me to pick my favorite child! One I love is Northwest Bounty by Schuyler Ingle & Sharon Kramis, which I bought when living in Seattle in the late 80s.
Love mysteries and all of Giadia’s cookbooks. I sometimes go to bed reading cookbooks!
Cookielicious by Janet Keeler
Maida Heatter’s Book Of Great Chocolate Desserts This book makes me smile and gets me cooking!
Joy of Cooking, 1947 edition. Gave away my 1990 edition because it wasn’t as good as this edition. — good old-fashioned food
America’s Test kitchen healthy family cookbook and also Betty Crocker.
Currently my favorite cookbook is America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook.
my mom’s Betty Crocker cookbook from the 60′s!
That’s a hard one to decide. I have over 3000 cookbooks and always have room for more. But I do like The Pioneer Woman by Ree Drummond and all the cookbooks by America’s Test Kitchen.
Betty Crocker and the Joy of Cooking
Farm Journal`s Pie Cookbook. Yummy recipes
Betty Crocker was my first and it is still my go to cookbook after
35 years.
I have an old encyclopedia type cookbook that I bought in installments from Kroger when I got married in 1958. The cover is missing but it has a lot of good tips and good recipes. I is very big. I hope someone in the family will give it a good home when I am gone.
I love so many of my cookbooks, but the one that has never let me down is Rao’s.
I like to google allrecipes.com for new recipe ideas. I also like the “Pillsbury Bake-Off” books you find at the check-out stands in grocery stores.
Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine by Norma Jean and Carole Darden! Hands down this cookbook includes some of the BEST desserts this side of creation. I should know, I have used this cookbook for over 25 years.
Favorites are Craig Claiborne’s New New York Times Cookbook and some Cooks Magazine cookbooks from the 80s and early 90s. Still have-and use- the old magazines too.
1960′s/1970′s Betty Crocker, and the Fix It and Forget It slow cooker cookbooks.
Better Homes and Gardens.
I have a shelf full of cookbooks, but unless it’s something unusual or special, I turn to my Betty Crocker cookbook.
My Mother’s Better Homes and Gardens cookbook
While I can’t stop buying cookbooks or cooking magazines, my absolute favorites are ‘The Victory Garden Cookbook’ by Marian Morash, ‘The Best of Sunset Magazine Cookbook’, ‘California Cookbook’ by the LA Times, and ‘Doubleday Cookbook’ by Jean Anderson. I frequently compare recipes between my favorites – times and tastes change! – to get a sort of consensus recipe, with a Betty Crocker cookbook as a baseline. I try to use at least one new recipe a week from the cooking magazines. At library book sales, I look for cookbooks with lots of stains, or notes scribbled in margins….
Favorite and most versitle would be Betty Crocker but there are so many other good ones out there its hard to decide.
Taste of Home cookbook
The Art of Cooking from the Naples Philharmonic League & Friends of Art
One of my very favorite cookbooks is title “White Trash Cooking”.
My newest favorite cookbook is the Barefoot Contessa in Paris.
“The Fannie Farmer Cookbook” by Marion Cunningham provides straightforward guidance to someone like me who never learned to cook and who, even at age 50, still lacks confidence in the kitchen.
Have lots of cookbooks so hard to pick just one but I guess it would be “Lone Star Legacy” pub. back in 1981.
One of my favorite cookbooks is called Prairie Home Breads by Judith M. Fertig. All the different breads, cakes, muffins and buns have been so easy and taste great.
Trying new recipes is my hobby, so I have lots of cookbooks. Besides all the ones put together by churches,ect., I would have to choose ‘Fix It And Forget It Entertaining’.
I love the Fix It and Forget It Cookbooks. I got the Christmas one last year and I can’t wait to try it out this Christmas!
I love the Southern Plate cookbook by Christy Jordan. Although I am not a southerner, she has so many (plus others) of favorite recipes that have been scratched on pieces of paper–it is great now to have them all in one place!
Heirloom Cooking With the Brass Sisters: Recipes You Remember and Love by: Marilynn and Shelia Brass
They came to my school to do a cooking demonstration last year. Not only are they comical, each recipe within their book is introduced by a brief anecdote about how they found their recipes. Some of the recipes date back to the 19th century and they are still delicious today! I would highly recommend both of their cookbooks!
Taste of Home Potluck Dinners
I have a very old edition of a Sunset magazine yearly update cookbook that I use all the time.
Always enjoy Ina Garten’s cookbooks. Thanks for the contest!