Southern Style recipes perfect for your next potluck dinner. These easy-to-follow recipes are guaranteed to make your family and friends “brag on you” every time you prepare them. A special section is included to give you pointers and tips on keeping food safe to eat whether you are going on a picnic or to a potluck dinner. There’s no luck like Potluck!

Excerpt from Potluck...Southern Style:

We think of “potluck” as sharing delicious food with friends or family and it centers around the heart of Southern hospitality. Fellowshipping with each other around a delightful meal, laughing, caring, and sharing is a wonderful way of life that provides warmth and security that meets our innermost needs. The potluck meal may come in the form of a church fellowship, family reunion, or simply friends getting together and each sharing responsibility for the meal by bringing several of their specialty dishes. We do take pride in the food we bring and always want it to be so scrumptious that everyone will brag on us and want our recipe.
In this book, Potluck...Southern Style, I have attempted to share with you my concerns for food safety at potluck dinners along with my most outstanding recipes. Hope you enjoy this collection of recipes from friends, family, and my kitchen. Many of these recipes are my prize winning “original creations.” This book is for those who enjoy good food.

Linda Hatcher received an Associate degree in Home Economics at Abraham Baldwin College and a Bachelor of Science in Home Economics Education from the University of Georgia. She has served as a Home Economist with the Georgia Extension Service, taught Home Economics, and is presently teaching Food Services at Dougherty High School. She has given home economics related demonstrations to various clubs, taught cooking schools, given cooking demonstrations on television, worked with 4-H, VICA, and FHS/HERO clubs, written a weekly newspaper column.

Linda has a great interest in cooking. During her years as a homemaker, when her children were young, she enjoyed creating original recipes and entering cooking contests. She has been a winner in local, state, and national cooking sweepstakes. Her children, Brian and Ashley, have also enjoyed entering and winning cooking contests. Many of their award winning recipes are featured in this book.

Linda has been able to put into action a great deal of what she has taught with her family. Linda, Al, her husband, and their children, Ashley and Jonathan make their home in Albany, Georgia. Brian, their oldest son is serving as a hospital corpsman in the United States Navy.