The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table (Thorndike Press Large Print Biographies and Memoirs)

Bragg, Rick

ISBN 10: 143285206X ISBN 13: 9781432852061

Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print, 2018

Synopsis

From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother. Including seventy-four mouthwatering Bragg family recipes for classic southern dishes passed down through generations.

Margaret Bragg does not own a single cookbook. She measures in "dabs" and "smidgens" and "tads" and "you know, hon, just some." She cannot be pinned down on how long to bake corn bread ("about 15 to 20 minutes, depending on the mysteries of your oven"). Her notion of farm-to-table is a flatbed truck. But she can tell you the secrets to perfect mashed potatoes, corn pudding, redeye gravy, pinto beans and hambone, stewed cabbage, short ribs, chicken and dressing, biscuits and butter rolls. Many of her recipes, recorded here for the first time, pre-date the Civil War, handed down skillet by skillet, from one generation of Braggs to the next. In The Best Cook in the World, Rick Bragg finally preserves his heritage by telling the stories that framed his mother's cooking and education, from childhood into old age. Because good food always has a good story, and a recipe, writes Bragg, is a story like anything else.

About this title

About the Author:

RICK BRAGG is the author of two best-selling books, Ava's Man and All Over but the Shoutin'. He lives in Alabama.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 143285206X
• ISBN 13: 9781432852061
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 811