Just in time for Mother’s Day, Juanita Garrison, The Courier’s cheery cooking columnist, is sharing some of her favorite recipes in a new book, “Sunday Best” (Courier Publishing, $17.95).

Garrison pored over more than a dozen years’ worth of recipes submitted by Courier readers and added a few of her own for this collection, which is available for preorder at CourierPublishing.com and will begin shipping in mid-April.

The book includes more than a hundred kitchen favorites and, in most cases, the stories Courier readers shared with Garrison about how the recipes came to be.

“Doing the column over the years has been a pleasure because I talked to so many good-cooking Baptists,” said Garrison. “Some of the recipes come from people who sent them to the Courier, and many are from church cookbooks that readers shared.

“I am grateful for both because I know that the recipe, whichever route it took, will be a good one. No one attaches his or her name to a dish that isn’t good.”

A journalism graduate of the University of Georgia, Garrison has written a gardening column for the Anderson Independent-Mail for many years and previously published “The Little Red Book of Good Manners.” Some of her gardening columns were collected for publication in “The Piedmont Garden” (USC Press).

Garrison has worked as a newspaper reporter, taught public school and was a journalism instructor at Anderson College (now Anderson University). A member of Welcome Baptist Church in Anderson, she was married to a prominent Anderson farmer, the late T. Ed Garrison, who served for 30 years in the South Carolina House of Representatives and later in the state Senate. She still lives at Denver Downs, the family farm where she and her husband raised six “perfect” children.

To purchase “Sunday Best,” visit CourierPublishing.com or call 1-888-667-4693. Discounts are available when purchasing five or more copies of Sunday Best. Call 1-888-667-4693 to receive discounted pricing.