Damon Lee Fowler

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Recipes and Stories

26 September 2013: A French Apple Tart

September 26, 2013

Tags: Autumnal Cooking, apple pie, apples, Apple Tart, French Apple Tart, Julia Child

A Free-Form Apple Tart is a simple pastry to master, but it never fails to impress.

For those on my Facebook author’s page who asked for the recipe, here’s the free-form apple tart that’s pictured there. This was the first apple pie I ever made after I was grown and had my own kitchen. It’s from the first Julia Child cookbook I owned, From Julia Child’s Kitchen (1975), and it has been my standard apple pie ever since.

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21 September 2013: Curried Rice Salad

September 21, 2013

Tags: Rice Salad, Curried Rice Salad, Lowcountry Cooking, Classic Southern Cooking

Curried Rice Salad with Raisins, Pecans, and Green Onions

As summer slips into autumn, it would not do to let it pass without visiting a warm weather standard that straddles the bridge between the seasons: curried rice salad.
Unlike pasta, leftover rice is perfect for recycling in a salad: while pasta often turns gummy and flabby when cold, rice holds its shape, remains firm and yet tender, and because its surface starches “set,” the grains don’t clump together but remain distinct and separate.

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Selected Works

Cookbooks

Ham: A SAVOR THE SOUTH Cookbook

A part of the University of North Carolina Press’s SAVOR THE SOUTH® series, Ham: A SAVOR THE SOUTH Cookbook contains 55 classic recipes for hams Southern and otherwise.

Essentials of Southern Cooking: Techniques & Flavors of a Classic American Cuisine

A collection of more than twenty-five years of writing about and teaching the history and techniques of the cooking of my native American South, the collection of cuisines that we loosely call Southern Cooking.

Savannah Chef's Table: Extraordinary Recipes from This Historic Southern City

A portrait of Savannah's growing restaurant scene in recipes and stories.

Classical Southern Cooking

A Celebration of the Cuisine of the Old South, hailed as a modern classic and Bible of Southern Foodways.

The Savannah Cookbook

A loving portrait of a proud old port city in recipes

Damon Lee Fowler's New Southern Kitchen

Classical Southern Cooking in today's kitchen

Damon Lee Fowler's New Southern Baking

Traditional Southern Baking for modern cooks

Beans, Greens, and Sweet Georgia Peaches

A sampling of the South's Cookery for the hundreds of regional fruits and vegetables.

Dining at Monticello

Seventy five recipes that were documented to have been used at Mr. Jefferson's Monticello during his lifetime, translated for use in a modern kitchen, with essays by the Foundation's curatorial staff.

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John Carrington Photography

Web site for the food photographer for two of my cookbooks, Classical Southern Cooking and The Savannah Cookbook

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