Wanna see the Southern Plate Cookbook before anyone else?
Today, I’m so excited to bring you an EXCLUSIVE sneak peek at the cover and the inside of my cookbook before anyone else sees it!
Click on the cover to Pre-Order!
Southern Plate: Classic Comfort Food That Makes Everyone Feel Like Family
Some amazingly talented people have worked very hard on this book and I want to give special thanks to the photography team and my wonderful publishers at Harper Collins! Today I’m also going to show you a glimpse of the interior, right off the design boards! These are the sample designs of the interior, they aren’t finalized yet (you’ll notice the page numbers aren’t there and it’s only a sampling of a few pages so we could get a feel for the final product) but I knew you’d be just as tickled as I was to see them firsthand. I’ve been DYING wanting to show you the book and I’d love to hear back from you – I hope you love it as much as I do!
If you’d like to see the inside (oh my, SO EXCITED about the inside!) click below.
To preview the initial design layout samples hot off the presses, click here.
The book is already available for pre-order. We don’t have all of the extras up there yet (See how neat it is that you can see them here first?) but you can click here or on the book cover to pre-order your copy now and have it delivered to your home as soon as it debuts in October. All pre-order sales count towards the first week’s sales so if we get enough pre-orders our book could actually debut on the lists with all the other “big boys”. I say “our book” because I really do think of this book as yours and mine. I even dedicated the book to you (in my usual long winded fashion), but you’ll have to see the actual book to read that. You know who I’m talking about when I say “big boys”, the fancy schmancy cookbooks that have all those ingredients we can’t pronounce! ~grins~.
Our cookbook features over 160 recipes, all from my family to yours and yes, many of them will be exclusive to the cookbook (never before published on Southern Plate) but per your feedback, I was sure to include many of your Southern Plate favorites as well so you could have them all in one handy place. I even have a whole section in there on gravies- Of course I have red-eye!
I tried to write the “go to” cookbook I’ve always wanted to have when it comes to simple, old fashioned recipes that I grew up with and I could not be happier with the finished product. In this day and age of entire networks dedicated to food – I think most of us just want to come home to the kind of meal our Mama’s and Grandmama’s made, put on the table by someone who loves us. I’ve included the stories with every recipe so you know where it came from, why I love it so much, and why I think you’ll like it to. This isn’t just a cookbook with ingredients and instructions, it’s a collection of recipes and remembrances shared with you just like a friend would.
I hope you’ll feel as if you’re sitting at my table chatting with me when you read it because that is just where my heart was as I wrote it.
More Great News! (click more to read)
Harper Collins has moved our book to a larger imprint. Southern Plate will now be printed under William Morrow! Some amazing books have been published under this imprint and I’m honored to be among them.
The William Morrow folks are new to the Southern Plate Family so I’d dearly love it if you’d say “hi” to them in the comments section of this post and let them know how much we all appreciate their faith in us and our book!
“Southerners like to feed people. Doing so nourishes the soul of the giver.”
Posted by Christy Jordan
on Apr 21 2010. Filed under Cookbook News, southern plate cookbook.
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Christy, you deserve all the goodness that is about to be bestowed upon you. You make us want to do better by our families by cooking real food for real people. Many continued blessings. Cathy
WOW! Christy (like we are on a first name basis) the cookbook
looks AWESOME! You go girl! All of us stay at home raising a
family normal chicks are cheering you!!
Girrrrl we ARE on a first name basis! First names, iced tea, and BIG hugs!
~giggles~ normal chicks…~grins~ I know EXACTLY what you mean!
Oh my! I can’t wait!
Love it!! I just found your site a couple of months ago, and I am so glad I did! I will definitely be buying a copy of your cookbook!
Dear Christy — so thrilled for you — I know somewhat how you feel I’ve wrote and illustrated a few sets of children books for the deaf — many years ago and when my first set was plublished it was awsome feeling..
Your Cookbook cover is captivating — it has all the charm that I see you have with irresistible appeal…
PS.. THANK YOU William Morrow and HarperCollins for publishing Christy’s cookbook for my family and I…
Thanks to William Morrow and co. for publishing Christy’s book. Christy it looks just wonderful and the food pictures look delicious, I was drooling over the ham picture and to see how easy your recipes are to follow, I just love it. I am so happy for you and your family, you deserve to be the outstanding author that you are. Congrats
I absolutely LOVE the cover and can hardly wait til the book comes out and is in my hot lil hands…thinking this will make great Christmas gifts for my girls also!! Congrats…and well done!!
Shouting out a hello to William Morrow! Christy’s cookbook is a sure hit! Can’t wait for it to be out!!
Christy, it is absolutely beautiful! Heading to Amazon now…
Your book looks wonderful!!
Congratulations, Christy! and Thanks, William Morrow Publishers. I have pre-ordered two books from Amazon and can hardly wait to browse through the “real thing.”
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I knows what I likes and I likes what I see.
I’ve been following you for a while now and enjoy it so much.
I wish you much success (duh, a given). You are not really
very good for my waistline, tho.
Mr Publisher–you have a gem–take special care. Southern gems
are very special.
Love you Christy–way to go.
Congratulations, Christy, and thank you William Morrow Publishers. I just ordered three copies and can’t wait to get them. God Bless You, Christy! And thank you for bringing us all the favorite recipes from your family. I’m from the South and love our Southern Cooking. Can’t wait to try more of yours.
Congrats it looks great….can not wait to get my hands on a copy.
Christy,
I stumbled on Southern Plate several months ago. Since then I have told all of my friends about it and have forwarded it on to my whole list of contacts. I see that many of them have become devoted to you also. Congrats to you on the awsome book! I believe that everyone is going to love it.
To the publishers……… you have a WINNER!
All this from your extended family in Missouri
Dear Christy-Congrats the book looks absolutely beautiful, I have been following you for awhile and have told my family about you.
Your recipes are wonderful and my GRANDdaughters love the Chocolate Chocolate Chip cookies, they are amazing. May God continue to bless you with much success.
Love Love Love the preview! The photographs are amazing! Love that the kids are in on the cover with you!
I love how the table cloth in one of the pics ISN’T ironed to take out the creases! That’s how families serve! Take the cloth out of the linen closet or drawer and let the food shine! It just makes it feel like “home” with these subtle little background items!
The pink apron shot is beautiful! It appears they shot these at your house! I love that you let us into your life in a keepsake such as this cookbook! It just goes with your whole open arms personality!
I am so glad your recipes have the stories that go along with them! It just wouldn’t be “your” cookbook without them. So many are going to find you endearing as we have. Look out Paula Dean!
I am still kicking myself for not ordering your first cookbook. ~sigh. But this one is mine! I will treasure it! I hope you do book signings here in Alabama! I’ll come see you!
To the publishers, thank you! Thank you for putting in our hands a beautiful masterpiece that we will treasure! We love to read what our Christy sends us in our emails. Now we can cook with her the way it should be! With her face smiling at us, her pyrex dishes holding the finished product and a smile on our faces as we share food, family and traditions! It mean’s so much to have this! I am so proud of her and happy to have watched her grow to this amazing point in her life! She’s a treasure and you couldn’t ask for a more humble, honest and giving person to grant this privilege to. Thank you… a northern transplant who is enjoying her southern education!
Way to go! If we preorder do we get a bonus pink apron?
Congrats Christy! What a blessing and I can’t wait to get my hands on this book…I certainly hope you’re planning to do a book-signing tour in Atlanta
looks great I am very excited for you and can’t wait to see it IRL!
made another one of your dinners tonight and as usual it was yummy
I’m speechless…..So Great!
Your cookbook looks great. I can’t wait to get one.
Christy,
I can’t wait to preorder your new cookbook. I have used many recipes of yours from the online cookbook that you sold online several years ago.
Jan
Thank you William Morrow for believing in Christy, like we all do. You won’t be disappointed. I am ordering more than one. Hurry this book along, we can’t wait!
Christy,
Congratulations on the new book. You are so deserving of the opportunity. I will add this book to my collection. I just love cooking with you.
Christy, WHERE & WHEN can I order my cookbook? It looks wonderful and I am so excited for you. Congratulations!!
Hey, congratulations on the book, it looks great. You are living the southern girl’s dream of having your own cookbook. Love the pearls and pink apron.
I cannot wait for publication of this cookbook. The photography looks wonderful and I look forward to your daily antedotes which brighten my day, along with the great recipes.
To William Morrow Company, you have a bestseller on your hands!
Your cookbook looks awesome…can’t wait to get my copy. Good job…thanks for all your hard work!
Kathi
Christy,
I’ve ordered already, can’t they speed up production. Do we have to wait until October. William Morrow is the winner in this story. Keep up the good work. We love you.
By the way, I would still like to take Flat Christy on vacation to Alaska. I know you are busy but think about it.
Christy it looks FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!
William Morrow — you won’t be sorry!! Book destined to be a Best Seller!
Christy, I’ve just ordered 2 copies, one for my neice who has MS and became hooked on cooking when she tried the Apple Dapple cake! Thanks so much for touching her with your recipes!
God bless!
Julie
Christy!
Congratulations! I am so excited for you and your family! When I tell people about your site – and believe me, I TELL LOTS OF PEOPLE about your site!!! I always say I wish there had been a “Southern Plate” when I first started cooking. Very practical, step-by-step instructions for the food we Southerners love.
I pray God’s richest blessings on your life and I hope you sell millons of cookbooks…..
Keep cookin,
deborah
Awww! Cristy you look prettier than Springtime itself in those pictures. I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy! I’ve already dropped not so subtle hints that since my brithdays in two weeks the best gift ever would be a pre-ordered copy!
Now my Momma will know who I’m talking about when I’m always saying: “Well Christy suggested…” when she asks about cooking.
To the good folks at William Morrow: Welcome! We couldn’t be happier to have you!
Congratulations! Can’t wait to read the finished product.
Your cookbook looks incredible, great job!! I bet you are so excited, you certainly deserve it
Very nice cover shot with your kids, I bet they enjoyed that also! Congrats! I can’t wait ’till it comes out, I’m so excited!!
The sneak peek ended too soon. I want more. I’m ordering now.
well now – you go girl!! When you’re more famous than Martha & Paula, all us Alabama girls can claim we knew you online way back when!! Your emails are always the first thing I look for in my mailbox and my weekly grocery list is built around at least one SouthernPlate concoction.
Your shots are great, I recognized the Hickory Stick right away. (One of our favorite local joints!!) You look fabulous in all of them. But now tell the truth – do you really cook in a pretty white blouse and pearls?? And you ought to be ashamed for teasing us like this when we cant get it till October!! I think I’ll go on and order a few for Christmas gifts.
Christy, this book is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! I can hardly wait to get my copy in October! And you can bet htat everyone on my Christmas list will be getting a copy.
Hello to my sister from another mother!!
I had already preordered my copy before I even got here to read about it – how’s that?! I tweeted to my followers too, of course. 
I wish you much luck and success on the promo of your new cookbook. Love ya gal. Mwah!
Oh, Christy, I am so excited and happy that FINALLY your cookbook will be in my kitchen within months!!
I know we can get a lot of recipes here at your website; but, to have a hard copy to go on the shelf with the rest of my favorite cookbooks is wonderful!! I’ve collected cookbooks since I was a teenager(many years ago!). I can’t wait to see some of the new recipes in the book. I am honored to be a member of Southern Plate.
William Morris, welcome! You have a real winner with Christy!
Christy, I don’t know who’s more excited me or my husband!! Have pre-ordered with Amazon and hope I’m home to open it before Bill.
Christy,
Lots of Hoots and Hollerin’ heading your way. I am SOOOO excited for you. I’ve been reading your posts for over a year now and I am so tickled for you. I have told people as far away as Sacremento about your blog and she loves the recipes. As do I, my mother, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, friends and co-workers. Guess I better purchase some stock in William Morrow, because I cannot even imagine how many copies that I am going to be getting for Christmas. YIKES!!!!
~~~~giggles and grins~~~~
Wishing you the VERY BEST!!!!
Yummy and picture perfect…..can’t wait to get my copy…..and an October release is perfect for the holidays.
When will you have your book signing schedule complete? I’m hoping I can find you somewhere in my neck of the woods.
Congratulations and the best to you and your wonderful family and thank you for letting me into your world.
Christy,
Congratulations!
I’m so very happy for you. Can you believe it is really happening? I know you must be over the moon. The book looks great the pictures are beautiful! I can’t wait till it’s released. And I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you in person at a book signing.
Blessings to you and the family,
Sheila
Congratulations Christy on the new Cookbook! I can’t wait to get the my copy and3 for my daughters too. Everyone will love your masterpiece.
Judy
I can’t wait to get this beautiful looking new recipe filled picture pretty book!!! I’m so very happy for your I have the other one also!!! Love you!
What a beautiful book. It will make a fantastic addition to cookbook collections. Add me to the “sold” list with copies for my family members also.
Thank you William Morrow!!! I just pre-ordered three books last night and am now wondering how many more I will need for Christmas presents. Oh I sure hope I can see you at a book signing if you come out West! Whenever I ask my kids what they want for dinner my daughter will say, “I don’t know. Let’s look on Southern Plate!”
Many blessings to you and your sweet family!