Rise and Shine!

A Southern Son's Treasury of Food, Family, and Friends

By: Johnathon Scott Barrett

RISE AND SHINE! is an engaging, funny, and poignant memoir about a Southern son and his life's relationship with food. Johnathon Barrett takes you on a decades-long journey of culinary exploration, starting in the 1960s in his hometown of Perry, Georgia. There in the low-rolling hills and slow-moving creeks of Middle Georgia he tells with good humor and reflection stories about his family, and how for generations farm-to-table food was a mainstay in their daily lives. Barrett shares his need to leave behind those days of stewed squash and fried okra, and move on to what he felt were more sophisticated and global offerings. He discovered that while he tried to take his palate of out of Dixie, there was always some Georgia red clay in his blood and in his taste buds. With several menus and 100 recipes the author provides a wonderful array of delights for contemporary cooks that will fill your hearts with a renewed appreciation for the magic that can happen in a family's kitchen.