Savannahs popularity as a tourist destination has increased dramatically in the months that John Berendt s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has been on the New York Times best sellers list, and in his introduction to this cookbook, Berendt says Deen s restaurant is one he recommends to visitors as exemplifying the very heart of Southern cooking. Deen (the Lady) says Southern cooking is comfort food, and she and her two sons serve homey, completely unpretentious food at their popular downtown restaurant. Many of the recipes she includes here rely on convenience foods (canned soup, Cheese Whiz) and some have been perennial favorites in community cookbooks since the Fifties or Sixties.