True Grits: Southern Foods Mail-order Catalogue - Tapa blanda

From Virginia hams to Cajun yams, Goo Goo Clusters to Kern's Kitchen Derbyr Pie, TRUE GRITS offers the best of the South, with instructions on ordering well over 150 delicacies and necessities even Southerners didn't know were available through the mail. The food sources listed range from large companies with catalogs and 800 numbers to one-family operations run out of a mill, farm, or home. Includes 30 recipes.

"A crazy old rice farmer in South Louisiana."

--Ellis Sansel on Ellis Stansel

Even if Ellis Stansel were selling quart jars of mud, you'd get a kick out of doing business with him. Luckily this septuagenarian second-generation rice farmer happens to grow and sell and absolutely superb-tasting special rice that ought to be a staple in every household. It's a long-grain, hybrid strain with the smell and flavor of popping corn. There is no catalog or price list because Ellis wants you to give him a call so he can get to know you, and his order-filling is the epitome of personal service. -from TRUE GRITS