'Magnolia' Cookbook Serves Real Recipes With Imaginary Backstories

Long before blockbuster cookbooks, community recipe collections
were go-to references for recipes. These compilations were
fundraising tools for church and junior league groups, Girl Scout
troops and 4-H clubs. Matthew Terrell is an artist and writer
living in Atlanta. His book, The Magnolia Bayou Ladies Auxiliary
Country Club Cooking and Entertaining Book , picks up the
spiral-bound, D.I.Y Southern tradition, but this time there is a
twist. This cookbook is fiction. While the recipes are real,
everything else — the stories, the characters, the commentary, the
ads — are fake.