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Burnt toast makes you sing good : a memoir of food and love from an American Midwest family

Burnt toast makes you sing good : a memoir of food and love from an American Midwest family

Flinn, Kathleen, author.
Book 2014

This family history with recipes offers a flavorful tale spanning three generations as Flinn returns to the mix of food and memoir readers loved in her best-seller The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry. From a Route 66 trek to San Francisco to their Michigan farm to the shores of Florida, humor and adventure defines her family even in the worst of times. You'll savor Uncle Clarence's divine corn-flake-crusted fried chicken, Grandpa Charles' s...

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Cooking, American Midwestern style
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ISBN:
9780670015443
067001544X
Description:
xii, 266 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Notes:
Subtitle in pre-publication: Recipes of love, loss, and adventure from an American Midwest family
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-266) and index
Contents:
That's amore
The farm on Coldwater Road
Morels in May
The queen of Mancelona
Playing chicken
Birthday dinner
Pie for radio
Fish stories
Top picker
Deer hunting season
Lemon pie
Paid in eggs
Hill Street blues
Danke
Sunshine state
Veterans of foreign wars
Don't tell our parents
Dollhouse
How far is heaven
LCCN:
2014004497
Control Number:
1049811
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