Full name: The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table

Author: Rick Bragg Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs, Cookbooks Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780525588665 9781400040414 0525588663 1400040418

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. The irresistible stories in this audiobook are of long memory -- many of them 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. Similar books: Life From Scratch by Sasha Martin Humble Pie by Gordon Ramsay Talking with My Mouth Full by Gail Simmons A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg Paula Deen by Paula Deen The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin Maman's Homesick Pie by Donia Bijan Give a Girl a Knife by Amy Thielen The Tenth Muse by Judith Jones Spiced by Dalia Jurgensen Consuming Passions by Michael Lee West Amarcord by Marcella Hazan Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain 32 Yolks by Eric Ripert My Kitchen Wars by Betty Fussell All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg Bread and Wine by Shauna Niequist The Making of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman The Most They Ever Had by Rick Bragg