Description: Sylvia Woods has been the owner of Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem for nearly 30 years. Now from its kitchen on Lenox Avenue and 126th Street comes more than 100 recipes for authentic soul food, such as grits, eggs, and sausage, gravy-smothered chicken and biscuits, black-eyed peas, and fried green tomatoes. Accompanying the recipes are reminiscences of the food and family of Sylvia's North Carolina childhood.
Brief description:
Sylvia Woods, born in Hemingway, South Carolina, started the world-famous Sylvia's Restaurant in 1963 and opened a second restaurant in Atlanta in 1997. She owned a line of canned and bottled food products that is sold in supermarkets across the country.