02498cam a2200385 i 4500 432337555 TxAuBib 20200821120000.0 170609s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017024979 9781400040414 1400040418 (OCoLC)990183131 TxAuBib rda BRAGG, RICK. Best cook in the world. The best cook in the world : tales from my momma's table / Rick Bragg. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018] ©2018. x, 485 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso. In Memory of Miss Marion "Bumpy" Bumpers. 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. 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 traditional Southern fare. 20200821. Copies 1-2, AASIS - 310006834 0 - Epa - $28.95; copies 3-4, AASIS - 310006832 0; copies 3 & 4 discarded on 08-10-2018. BRAGG, RICK Family. BRAGG, RICK Family. Cooking, American Southern style. Cookbooks. Cookbooks.