Colonel Beauregard Cracker's Southern Kitchen: Recipes and Tall Tales of the South" by Daniel Golio is a Southern cookbook by Daniel Golio, featuring recipes and anecdotes from the perspective of a fabricated character, Colonel Beauregard Cracker, with a focus on southern cuisine during the 1860s.. The book describes Beauregard's exploits during the American Civil War in great detail, but is more than just culinary escapades as it is chock full of recipes and anecdotes of his unique observations on the war.