This Week's Store Events Book Signing Saturday, December 19 10:00 - 12:00 Regina Charboneau Chef & Author Natchez chef Regina Charboneau will be signing Regina's Table at Twin Oaks, at Cover to Cover Books & More from 10:00 to 12:00 on Saturday, December 19.  Regina's Table at Twin Oaks
celebrates the Four Seasons of Twin Oaks circa 1832 in historic Natchez
on the Mississippi River. Chef Regina Charboneau creates over 32
Seasonal Menus with recipes to interpret the Four Seasons of Twin Oaks
through food. This book has over 260 recipes for every occasion
including Seasonal Cooking class Menus from her popular Cooking Class
weekends at Twin Oaks. "I'm confident when the pages of this cookbook are well worn, smudged with Regina's unique style of Southern Cooking, you too will come to count this cookbook as so much more than a compendium of Regina's recipes. Here's to never ending helpings of grace, hospitality,generosity and Southern love". Paige Porter Fischer - San Francisco Chef
Regina Charboneau, A Natchez native, is known for her contemporary
Southern cuisine and her San Francisco restaurants "Regina's at the
Regis", "Regina's ChiCHi Beignet" and "Biscuits and Blues". She
returned to Natchez in 2000 to raise her two sons. When she and her
husband found Twin Oaks she knew this was the right move for her. It
was the perfect house in Natchez for entertaining, not only did it have
a large kitchen bit it also had six guest rooms on the property. Twin
Oaks was absolutely Regina's style of casual yet slightly elegant and
the ideal setting for Regina's Southern Cooking Classes which are
offered several times a year. Regina has been a frequent guest chef on
P. Allen Smith's Gardens. Regina has appeared on NBC's Today Show as
well as Bay Cafe and other cooking shows. She makes Natchez home and
lives at Twin Oaks with her family. Book Signing Saturday, December 19 12:00 - 2:00 William Ferris Author  Mississippi native, William Ferris is appearing at Cover to Cover Books & More, Saturday, December 19, from 12:00 until 2:00 to sign his new book, Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues. His appearance and signing is in conjunction with Blues Christmas in Natchez.  The University of North Carolina Press, 2009, Hardcover, $35.00 Signed Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices from this invaluable documentary record. Illustrated with Ferris's photographs of the speakers and their communities and including a dual CD/DVD that presents his original field recordings and films, the book features more than twenty musicians who relate frank, dramatic, and engaging narratives about black life and blues music in the heart of the American South. Here are the stories of artists who have long memories and speak eloquently about their lives, blues musicians who represent a wide range of musical traditions--from one-strand instruments, bottle-blowing, and banjo to spirituals, hymns, and prison work chants. From celebrities such as B. B. King and Willie Dixon to artists known best in their neighborhoods, they express the full range of human experience--joyful and gritty, raw and painful. In an autobiographical introduction, Ferris reflects on how he fell in love with the vibrant musical culture that was all around him but was considered off limits to a white Mississippian during a troubled era. This magnificent volume illuminates blues music, the broader African American experience, and indeed the history and culture of America itself. Vicksburg native William Ferris is Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ferris coedited the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and is author of Blues from the Delta. Rolling Stone magazine named him among the Top Ten Professors in the United States.
Book Signing Saturday, December 19 2:00 - 4:00 Denise Gee Author and Robert Peacock Photographer Natchez native, Denise Gee and husband Robert Peacock will be signing Southern Cocktails: Dixie Drinks, Party Potions & Classic Libations at Cover to Cover Books & More from 2:00 to 4:00 on Saturday, December 19.  Is it five o'clock yet? The cocktail hour has long been a cherished tradition of the South, a relaxing way to wind down and enjoy the conversation of friends and family, maybe with a tasty little appetizer to nibble on, too. But why stop at the cocktail hour, when you can make it an all-out party? Here you'll find the favorites, old and new. Don't wait for the Kentucky Derby to enjoy a Classic Mint Julep, or for Mardi Gras in New Orleans to quaff a Hurricane. Shake up a batch of Blueberry Martinis for an elegant cocktail party with a twist, or serve a sparkling bowl of Champagne Punch at your next celebration. And since, after all, tomorrow is another day, go ahead and enjoy another Scarlett O'Hara. Have some nice Devilish Eggs, or one of the other appetizer recipes you'll find here, to go with it. A section on Bar Necessities will give you a hand stocking your bar, creating garnishes, and serving in the proper glass, and a short list of classic toasts will get the evening started, Southern-style. Up to my lips and down to my hips The further it goes, the better it gits. Here's peace at home and plenty abroad. Love your wife and serve the Lord - Drink? -Early antebellum South toast Denise Gee grew up in a four-story antebellum house in Natchez, Mississippi, surrounded by a family (including her cousin, designer-author Lee Bailey) that was passionate about sharing great food and stories. She has written extensively about Southern people, places, food, and style for Southern Living, Coastal Living, Better Homes and Gardens, and a host of newspapers. She contributed to Lee Bailey's James Beard Award-winning Southern Food and Plantation Houses, and is nationally recognized for her writing and styling work. Robert M. Peacock, on of the South's leading food, home, travel, and people photographers, has shot for Better Homes and Gardens, Southern Living, Coastal Living, Southern Accents, and numerous newspapers. Robert and Denise are a husband-and-wife team who travel extensively
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