From Bop's Kitchen: Recipes Passed Down and Kept Just as They Were Written

In a small red plastic box, long since missing its top, Bop kept her recipes.Russell Dixon found the box at age 80, after thinking it was gone forever. Inside were his mother's recipes — written in pencil on small note cards in her right-leaning, left-handed scrawl, organized in a fashion only she understood. She was born in 1908 to Irish immigrants in rural South Carolina, lost her mother days after birth, married at 15, and raised her family through the Great Depression and three wars. She fed them all from that little red box.From Bop's Kitchen collects her recipes exactly as she wrote them — Bacon Creamed Cabbage, Flop House Gravy, Sweet Potato Pie, and dozens more — alongside the story of the woman who made them. Simple food, made in hard times, passed down through three generations and kept just as they were written.Compiled with love by her son Russell Dixon and granddaughter Shelly Criswell. Read more