Ernie was born on August 23, 1940, in Palm Valley, Florida. And he knew it from a distinctly rural view. It was Ernie’s reclamation of the South, as he knew it. “White Trash Cooking” was a staple on The New York Times Best Seller list for weeks as a gift for Southern kin, an eloquent medley of camp and honesty. In The New York Times, critic Bryan Miller deemed “White Trash Cooking” the “most intriguing book of the 1986 spring cookbook season.” Even the grand dame of Southern literature, Harper Lee, claimed she had “never seen a sociological document of such beauty - the photographs alone are shattering.” She called the book “a beautiful testament to a stubborn people of proud and poignant heritage.” The book stirred a firestorm of publicity - partly serious, partly tongue-in-cheek - landing Ernie on “Late Night With David Letterman” and National Public Radio, in magazines like Vogue and People, and in a litany of newspapers. It was immediately revered by literary snobs, Southern aristocrats, Yankees, folklorists, down-home folk, and people on either side of the Mason-Dixon. Oddly enough, damned near everyone loved it. In spring of 1986, Ernest “Ernie” Matthew Mickler’s “White Trash Cooking” landed on bookshelves across America - a 160-page, spiral-bound anthology of Southern recipes, stories, and photographs.
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