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Book Your Lunch with Award-Winning Cookbook Authors The Lee Brothers 

Greenville, SC, January 8, 2013 - Book Your Lunch with award-winning cookbook authors Matt Lee and Ted Lee on Wednesday, March 20th, at 12:00pm at The Lazy Goat in downtown Greenville. Tickets are $65 each and include one hardcover copy of The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen, which can be picked up at the store after 2/26/13 or can be brought to the event for you. Tickets must be purchased in advance at http://www.bookyourlunch.com or by calling Fiction Addiction at 864-675-0540.

In The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen (Clarkson Potter, hardcover, $35.00, on sale February 26th), award-winning cookbook authors Matt Lee and Ted Lee bring to life the cuisine of this vibrant Southern city in a narrative-with-recipes that will resonate with food lovers and cultural explorers wherever they may live.  

Over the past five years, Charleston, SC, has emerged as one of the country's hottest food destinations. And for most visitors, the points of entry to the city's culinary life are its award-winning restaurants. But there's a larger story to be told about the area's food community--about the home cooks and restaurant chefs, plus a host of food sages and flat-out eccentrics who have made the town such a compelling place to cook and dine out in today.

Raised in Charleston from the time they were small boys, Matt and Ted learned to shuck oysters and pick blue crabs as kids and to watch for the day in April when the loquats on street trees ripened. The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen is their story of how growing up and living in the Holy City made them the cookbook writers they are today. Included here are classic recipes like Charleston Okra Soup and Smothered Pork Chops, rendered for today's home kitchens. There are recipe-tributes to key players in the town's food history: Flounder in Parchment with Shaved Vegetables is an homage to the dish that was Edna Lewis's signature during her tenure at Middleton Place; Henry's Cheese Spread is a peppery dip from a mid-century brasserie beloved by locals. And here are delicious seasonal drinks inspired by Charleston's fruit harvest: Muscadine Sangria, Loquat Manhattans, and Kumquat Margaritas. Rounding out the book are a complete bibliography of Charleston cookbooks and maps of driving and walking tours corresponding to the recipes.

With 100 recipes, 75 color photographs, and numerous personal stories, The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen will make every reader an instant insider to this vibrant food culture, and will have home cooks whipping up Shrimp and Grits and Huguenot Torte like locals. The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen gives readers the most intimate portrayal yet of the cuisine of this exciting Southern city, one that will resonate with food lovers wherever they live. And for visitors to Charleston, the indispensable walking and driving tours related to recipes in the book bring this food town to life like never before.    

The Lee Brothers

Siblings Matt and Ted grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. When they left to attend colleges in the Northeast, they so missed the foods of their hometown that they founded The Lee Bros. Boiled Peanuts Catalogue, a mail-order catalogue for Southern pantry staples like stone-ground grits, fig preserves, and, of course, boiled peanuts. When an editor of a travel magazine asked them to write a story about road-tripping their home state in search of great food, they embarked on a second career as food and travel journalists. They have also written two previous groundbreaking cookbooks, The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook: Stories and Recipes for Southerners and Would-be Southerners, and The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern: Knockout Dishes with Down-Home Flavor. They currently write food stories for Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, GQ, The New York Times, and they are contributors to the Cooking Channel show Unique Eats.