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Biscuit Day May 19th at Union Ave Books!

Sidewalk book signings with Holly Herrick at 11:00AM, author of The Southern Farmers Market Cookbook and Tart Love and Ashley English at 1:00PM, author of Homemade Living: Canning and Preserving, Homemade Living: Keeping Bees, Keeping Chickens and Home Dairy with Ashley English. Vince Staten from 11:00AM - 1:00PM, author of Real Barbecue: The Classic Barbecue Guide to the Best Joints Across the USA.

Plus, a variety of toppings and biscuits available from Just Ripe; Aprons featured by Reruns, and a “Biscuit Special” of 50% off a photography session at John Black Photography!

SOUTHERN FARMERS MARKET COOKBOOK features 75 recipes and products grown in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Kentucky, and Tennessee, but many of the same foods can be purchased locally in most areas of the country.

INCLUDES THESE MOUTHWATERING RECIPES:
Butter Bean and Grape Tomato Bruschetta
Fresh Sweet Onion and Corn Chowder
Wild Honey-Glazed Carrots with Mint and Green Onions
Braised Figs and Shallots in a Honey-Red Wine Sauce
Wine-Poached Salmon with Cucumber Crudité Sauce
Roasted Garlic Fresh Spaghetti with English Peas and Leeks in a Cream Sauce
Warm Wild Cherry Carolina Gold Rice Pudding
Blues-Busting Blueberry Ice Cream

Ashley English provides a feast of information for dairy-loving foodies! She guides readers through all the essentials in four topic-specific sections: Butter & Ghee, Cultured Dairy Products, Cheese, and Ice Cream. Each primer offers need-to-know facts with gorgeous photos, troubleshooting tips, profiles, and Ashley's own roster of recipes for making such dairy staples as butter, sour cream, and cheese from scratch-as well as 10 seasonal dishes from Chilled Cucumber Yogurt Soup to traditional Mac & Cheese.

Two decades after barbecue kingpins Vince Staten and Greg Johnson published their ode to the top 100 barbecue joints around the United States, they have logged thousands more miles—and at least as many rib racks—in their quest to monitor, taste, and even create the very best. Part travel guide, part recipe book, REAL BARBECUE is really a celebration of a way of life, peppered with such sage advice as, “A man that won't sleep with his meat don't care about his barbecue” (Early Scott). This update of the classic has a completely new design with photos, trivia, detailed locations of great eating joints coast to coast, sidebars about sauces and sides, columns about cook pits and shack architecture, sections devoted to Texas ribs, Cowboy-que, lowcountry pulled pig, California-que-zeen, and real-man reviews of rib joints such as Allen & Sons in Pittsboro and Vince Staten’s Old Time Barbecue in Prospect (he put his money where his mouth is). Secret recipes and mail-order finds are also included. This is your guide to the best barbecue across America, often identified only by a thick black column of smoke in the distance.

A syndicated columnist and author of ten books, including Kentucky Curiosities(Globe Pequot Press), Vince Staten has appeared on such media as "Late Night with David Letterman," "Dateline NBC," "Today on NBC," and NPR's "Morning Edition." His varied career encompasses writing, lecturing, teaching, and co-owning Vince Staten's Old Time Barbecue in downtown Prospect, Kentucky. Greg Johnson is the Features Editor for The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky.

Biscuit Poetry Contest!

Poet Judy Loest announces the winner of the UAB Biscuit Poetry Contest at 4.30 p.m. on Biscuit Day, May 19!

Carry the One begins in the hours following Carmen’s wedding reception, when a car filled with stoned, drunk, and sleepy guests accidentally hits and kills a girl on a dark country road. For the next twenty-five years, those involved, including Carmen and her brother and sister, craft their lives in response to this single tragic moment. As one character says, “When you add us up, you always have to carry the one.” Through friendships and love affairs; marriage and divorce; parenthood, holidays, and the modest calamities and triumphs of ordinary days, Carry the One shows how one life affects another and how those who thrive and those who self-destruct are closer to each other than we’d expect. As they seek redemption through addiction, social justice, and art, Anshaw’s characters reflect our deepest pain and longings, our joys, and our transcendent moments of understanding. This wise, wry, and erotically charged novel derives its power and appeal from the author’s exquisite use of language; her sympathy for her recognizable, very flawed characters; and her persuasive belief in the transforming forces of time and love.

Carol Anshaw is the author of Aquamarine, Seven Moves, and Lucky in the Corner. She has received the Ferro-Grumley Award, the Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award for Fiction, and a National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. She lives in Chicago.