Martha Nesbit’s Cookbooks
Nibbles and Scribbles - Cooking and Writing in the Deep South is finally available for purchase!
NIBBLES AND SCRIBBLES
Nibbles and Scribbles - a food memoir with recipes - has been five years in the making, and arrived just before Christmas, 2019. The book traces my culinary journey from my childhood home in Valdosta, Georgia, and ends in Savannah, Georgia, with retirement dinners with Gary, my husband of more than 40 years. Along the way, you will meet my grandparents, Emory and Mary Lane, who farmed in Bulloch County, chefs who shaped the way Savannah diners ate in the 1970s and 1980s, fabulous caterers, and best-and-brightest home cooks who were nominated by their friends and families. Other food writers, cooking classes, church casseroles, a coastal river house, and traveling are also the subjects of some of my essays, which all end with recipes from that period of life. In addition to family pictures and photos culled from the files of the Savannah Morning News, Nibbles and Scribbles features the paintings of Savannah artist Sharon McIntosh. These fine independent stores carry the book:
Cents and Sensibility, Sandfly
Cohen’s Retreat
E Shaver Fine Books (will mail)
Mockingbird, Valdosta, Georgia
Seaside Sisters, Tybee Island (will mail)
The Book Lady
The Village Market, Skidaway Island
Savannah Collection
Savannah Collection - Fabulous Favorites From Some of the City’s Finest Cooks is a spiral-bound collection self-published in 1986, the year my first son was born. Like the title says, it contains recipes I featured in articles I wrote while I was the food editor of the Savannah Morning News in the 1970s and early ‘80s – split pea soup, Ocilla Cole Slaw, baked Vidalia onions, and so on. The book is out of print, but I find copies occasionally sold through online bookstores and in antique and flea markets.
Savannah Entertains
Savannah Entertains was published by Wyrick and Company in 1996 and includes more than 175 recipes presented in 22 events with full menus. The late Don Bass styled most of the food for photographer Steve Bisson to photograph. Parties include an oyster roast, wild game dinner, Thanksgiving dinner, and an Asian dinner fundraiser. The book is no longer in print, but copies are often sold online and in antique and flea markets.
Savannah Celebrations
Savannah Celebrations, published in 2010 by Pelican Publishing, takes up where Savannah Entertains left off, adding some new recipes, like spicy deviled crab, and some new events, like tailgate parties and beach picnics. Friends tell me they love the tenderloin rolls, tomato pie, and the fresh apple cake. Savannah Celebrations can be ordered from online bookstores and is sold in some Savannah gift stores and bookstores.
Dishing Up Hope
Mission Meals in Tapachula, Mexico, is a book I wrote with missionary Hope Shearouse as a fundraiser for higher education for children living in group homes in Tapachula, Mexico. It was self-published with donations from supporters of Mission on the Move, the parent organization of the group homes. Some of the children come to the homes straight from living with their parents in prison, others have been abandoned by their parents, or are orphaned. The cookbook funds were earmarked specifically for higher education. So far, at least three of the children have graduated from college and are working. Hope and I recorded the recipes served to mission teams who come to work at the homes. The book also features some of the favorite recipes prepared by members of the teams when they visit Tapachula. This book is not sold in bookstores; a few copies are available through www.Missiononthemove.org.