'White Trash Cooking' Becomes Recipe For 2019 James Beard Award

Ernest Matthew Mickler's White Trash Cooking was released in 1986
to mixed reviews. Some of the recipes in the cookbook include
"Uncle Willie's Swamp Cabbage Stew," "Rabbit Pie" and "Broiled
Squirrel." Critics wondered if the book was for shock value or if
it was just another elitist dig at poor southerners. Michael Adno's
profile of Mickler portrays a man who took pride in his
disappearing southern heritage and in the food served by his
Florida relatives and neighbors — the same people he felt rejected
by as a gay man.