A Yankee's Guide to Surviving Life in the South and A Southerner's Guide to Surviving Life with Those Damn Yankees

Kate Dyer is a Yankee Boston-born and bred. She's a lawyer by trade on the wrong side of fifty blunt irreverent and opinionated. She's what Southerners might colorfully call contrary. Through an uninteresting twist of events she's built a new life south of the Mason-Dixon Line-and she's having the time of her life doing it! As any successful lawyer must be she's also a keen and astute observer of the human species. That makes her a bit of an amateur anthropologist who is eager to share her tongue-in-cheek observations. Here to help fellow Yankees who share her newfound love of the South she shares her best tips for fitting in with the locals. And for all those Southerners who just can't figure out those Yankees who have moved in she's got a few tips as well. She offers some tongue-in-cheek guidance in how to decode regional vocabulary from both sides. And as an ingenious Yankee she has a lot to say about good old-fashioned Yankee ingenuity. You'll also enjoy a culinary passport to the flavors of her childhood in Boston as well as her adopted Tennessee home with dozens of recipes that showcase-and celebrate-the flavors of each region. A Taste of the North (or A Little Yankee Home Cooking) Classic Crab Cakes New England Clam Chowder Fancy-Schmancy Baked Chicken in Wine Sauce Boiled Lobster Linguini with Artichoke Hearts and Prosciutto A Taste of the South (Or How a Yankee Learned to Cook Like Y'all) Southern Fried Chicken Collard Greens for New Year's Day Oh-So-Southern White Beans Melt-in-Your-Mouth Southern Biscuits Proper Southern Grits So no matter what side of the border you call home there's something here to amuse enlighten and enjoy.