Wiggins did not offer an explanation of the name.
206) as the first printed reference to Hummingbird Cake. Wiggin's recipe published in the February 1978 issue of Southern Living magazine (p. The cake was named after Emma Rylander Lane of Clayton, Alabama, who published the original recipe under the name "Prize Cake" in her 1898 cookbook Some Good Things to Eat."
"A layer cake with a fluffy frosting and containing coconut, chopped fruits and nuts in the filling. Recipes for these cakes can be found under the Julia's Cakes link. I spelled barbecue "barbeque" in the book, and my poor copyeditor had to go through the entire manuscript and change all those q's to c's.ĭuring my research on Southern cakes for the book, I could trace only four cakes back to definitive Southern origins. It's also home to the famous Lexington Barbecue Festival. Lexington is a true barbecue town, with more barbecue restaurants per capita than any other place in the state. Mullaby, the fictional town in the book, is very loosely based on the town of Lexington, North Carolina. I knew I wanted the town in the book to be a barbecue town, so I could showcase the unique quality of North Carolina barbecue and its sauces. The story I started out telling bears little resemblance to the story it is today.but the one constant was barbecue. The book went through three complete drafts. The title made sense when I first started writing the book but ended up having no correlation to the final draft. The Girl Who Chased the Moon was originally titled Festival of the Naked Lady. The Girl Who Chased The Moon Interesting Tidbits
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