The Cheese Biscuit Queen, Kiss My Aspic!: Southern Recipes, Saucy Stories, and More Rambunctious Behavior

Greene got her love of stories from her maternal grandmother and got her famous cheese biscuit recipe from her Aunt Mimi. After regaling readers with tales and recipes in The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All, Greene, a born-and-raised South Carolinian and long-time governmental-relations consultant, is back dishing up more family stories, 80 new recipes, and a few funny anecdotes about working in South Carolina state government. Divided into course chapters, such as appetizers, desserts, and libations, Greene’s stories include everything from a sweet tale about her mother’s love of Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy (in “Thank You and Good Night, Mr. Firth”) to the cutthroat competition that exists in local gardening clubs, as evidenced by “The Colonel and the Ladies of the Camellia Society.” The recipes themselves are written in a wonderful home-cook-to-home-cook style and range from pimento-cheese chicken divan and bourbon bacon fudge to Aunt Mimi’s famous cheese biscuits and Gran-Gran’s sour-cream coffee cake.