The best cook in the world [large print] : tales from my momma's table / Rick Bragg.
Rick Bragg presents a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother. Includes 75 mouth-watering Bragg family recipes for classic southern dishes passed down through generations.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781432852061
- ISBN: 143285206X
- ISBN: 9781432868291
- Physical Description: 795 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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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- 8 of 8 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library. (Show)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Iredell Outreach | L.P. 641.5975 BRA (Text) | 33114018039529 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Columbus Library | LP 641.597 BRA (Text) | 31250200030270 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Eden Library | LP 641.597 B (Text) | 31554010251923 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Gunn Memorial Public Library | LP 641.5 BRA (Text) | 34621991123038 | Adult Large Print New Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | 641.5975 B (Text) | 33258008431392 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Hoke County Public Library | LGPT 641.5975 BRAGG (Text) | 28198000036467 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Lexington Public Library | LP 641.59 B (Text) | 25908006821511 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| North Asheville Library | LP 641.5975 BRA (Text) | 0020511917518 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
