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The cracker kitchen : a cookbook in celebration of cornbread-fed, down-home family stories and cuisine / Janis Owens.
- Title
- The cracker kitchen : a cookbook in celebration of cornbread-fed, down-home family stories and cuisine / Janis Owens.
- Author
- Owens, Janis, 1960-
- Publication
- New York : Scribner, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | TX715.2.S68 O955 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxv, 277 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- More than 150 recipes plus family remembrances and cultural history make up this irresistible salute to Cracker heritage. Owens's cookbook is a love letter written to celebrate the poor white people of the American South ... it is a joy to read and a pleasure to turn to--Pat Conroy.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- menus.
- Menus
- Menus.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Crosses, cakes, and storytelling over coffins : it must be spring. Easter ; Bridal and baby showers ; Funeral fare ; Sunday dinner ; Mother's Day -- They don't call them dog days for nothing. Memorial Day ; Fourth of July ; Light summer supper ; Fish fry ; From your summer garden -- All manner of unclean beast, football, and one little bitty baby, born in Bethlehem. Wild game days/hunting season ; Tailgate party ; Thanksgiving ; Christmas cookie brunch ; Christmas -- The clear, cold days of winter. New Year's day ; In celebration of soul ; Pig-picken time ; Hearty winter breakfast ; Poker night -- Pickles, preserves, and things in jars -- The Cracker pantry -- Thoughts in closing.
- ISBN
- 9781416594840
- 1416594841
- LCCN
- ^^2008032676
- OCLC
- 232979252
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library