“Sittin’ down to eat with the people you love, or even just like, life don’t get much better than that. Least not here in Bon Temps.”
—Sookie Stackhouse

Whether they live to eat, eat to live, or stopped living long ago and now just hunger for the past, the characters from the HBO® blockbuster original series True Blood® have a lot to say about food. In a world where everyone’s fighting over whose mama’s grits
and fried okra are the best, and where gumbo and stuffed crawfish are the ties that bind, it makes sense that love and lust, comedy and tragedy, death and redemption unfold at the table and over drinks. And with all the drama that goes on, you know the good
people of the parish need some serious comfort food. From the finger-lickin’-good home cooking straight out of Gran’s kitchen, to Lafayette’s and Terry’s specialties at Merlotte’s, to the dangerous drinkables served up by Eric and his ilk at Fangtasia, True Blood:
Eats, Drinks, and Bites from Bon Temps delivers the good stuff, along with plenty of photos from the series.

True Blood: Eats, Drinks, and Bites from Bon Temps includes 85 recipes covering everything from appetizer through dessert, morning through night, each attributed to and introduced by a character from the series. Enjoy dishes such as Russell’s Beautifully
Broken Bisque, Sookie’s What a Fried Chicken, Ruby Jean’s Hash courtesy of Lafayette, Sam’s All Mixed Up Red Beans and Rice, a Totally Surprised Birthday Cake from Tara, and much more. Wash it all down with drinks both boozy and virgin – 20 of them, to be exact. A collection of genuine Bayou country fare, True Blood: Eats, Drinks, and Bites from Bon Temps will satisfy any appetite—after all, everyone from a husky werewolf and a plucky faerie to a brooding vampire king has to eat…or drink.

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Gianna Sobol is an associate producer on the hit HBO series True Blood. She lives in Los Angeles. Alan Ball is the creator, writer, and producer of True Blood and Six Feet Under®. He lives in Los Angeles (but has deep Southern roots). Karen Sommer Shalett
is the editor-in-chief of DC magazine and a former staff writer for New Orleans’ Times- Picayune. Marcelle Bienvenu is co-author of the bestselling New Orleans heritage cookbook Cooking Up a Storm.

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