Biographical note:

Southern Living, launched in 1966, is the heart of Southern life. Over 15 million people turn to the magazine each month for recipes, travel tips, gardening guides, and home decorating inspiration. Readers use it, keep it, live by it. It's the magazine that no Southern home in any part of the country can be without.

Main description:

From quick and easy dinners to holiday entertaining to step-by-step instructions, this cookbook has it all! With over 750 recipes from the culinary experts at Southern Living--this book is a must-have for generations of Southern cooks.

Published since 1979, Southern Living Annual Recipes provides every single recipe from a year's worth of Southern Living magazine in one complete volume. From large, family-style meals, to easy-to-pull together weekend brunches, to everyday family-pleasing treats--with gorgeous photographs, step-by-step instructions, and more than a dash of genteel Southern charm and style. Included are cook and prep times on every recipe, so the cook can plan her schedule to minimize time in the kitchen and maximize time with family and friends. With dozens of menus and over 100 step-by-step photographs from the renowned Test Kitchen professionals at Southern Living, this hefty volume serves as a cookbook as well as a reference book.