鹹水餐桌：南方海岸食譜

I've cooked the shrimp and grits recipe twice already and it tastes like a proper Southern Sunday supper. The chapters weave in local ingredients from the coast without overcomplicating things, which is rare for a cookbook this pretty.

I bought this after a trip to the Georgia coast and the chapters on Cumberland Island's local ingredients hit exactly right. The photography is gorgeous enough to leave on the coffee table, but it's the coastal Southern recipes I keep actually cooking from.

The recipe for the she-crab soup alone made this book worth it — the coastal Carolina flavors come through just like I remember from trips down there. Otawka's writing about Cumberland Island ingredients makes me want to book a trip.