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The best cook in the world tales from my momma's table

Bragg presents a food memoir, cookbook, and tribute to his mother. Margaret Bragg does not own a single cookbook, measures ingredients by "dabs" and judges "done" by look and smell. Her son shares classic family recipes-- many of them pre-dating the Civil War-- as well as preparation secrets for tra...

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Main Author: Bragg, Rick (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
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Bragg, Rick > Family.
Cooking, American > Southern style.
Cookbooks.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: It takes a lot of rust to wipe away a General Electric
  • "Them shadows get to dancin'"
  • "Salt is good"
  • A man who knew beans
  • Sweeter, after the frost
  • "A chicken ... ain't likely to ketch on"
  • The fourth bear
  • The falling cow
  • "Hard times, come around no more"
  • "A ham hock don't call for help"
  • Cakes of gold
  • Sis
  • The second ghost
  • Bitter weeds
  • Still hard times for an honest man
  • The pie that never was
  • Ribs in the dead of night
  • Clementine
  • Tomatoes without taste, tomatoes without end
  • Didelphis Virginiana
  • Stairway to nowhere
  • People who cook
  • Blackberry winter
  • Till it thunders
  • Offerings
  • Government cheese
  • Sometimes the pies just call your name
  • Red's
  • "When Momma was all right"
  • Monkey on a string
  • Edna's ark
  • Staggering to glory
  • The runaway
  • "Untimely figs"
  • Spring
  • Epilogue: The recipe that never was.

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