Sweet Potato Cookbook — County Line Packing

50 recipes & A history of the South’s favorite root

UNC-Press 2014

Preston’s sister April quite literally wrote the book on sweet potatoes. She combined her family and hometown love of sweet potatoes with her experience working as a chef and food writer to dig into the sweet potato’s fascinating Southern history and create 50 glorious recipes for our favorite root! You can get your own copy of the book to enjoy them all, or you can visit the publications below or our Recipe Blog for a sampling plus a few new ones.


April’s book & Sweet Potato Recipes have been featured in Many publications. Follow these links for recipes and stories.


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If you you would like to partner with us, we would love to have you feature our recipes or let us develop something specific for you. April is a professional food and cookbook writer, as well as a professional recipe developer and tester. Just fill out the form below, and she will get back to you as soon as possible.