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The Best Cook in the World

Tales from My Momma's Southern Table: A Memoir and Cookbook

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From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother.

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. Because good food always has a good story, and a recipe, writes Bragg, is a story like anything else. Food & Wine Biographies & Memoirs Gastronomy Memoir Heartfelt Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating Fitness, Diet & Nutrition Southern Cooking
Heartfelt Family Stories • Vivid Cultural Memories • Calming Southern Voice • Rich Southern Heritage • Authentic Narration

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Already a long-standing fan of Bragg’s writing, I was intrigued at the thought of a “cookbook” but this was, of course, so much more than that. A history, a memoir, Southern storytelling at its best. I could hear the voices of “my people” as he calls them because they may as well have been my actual kin, so familiar were the turns of phrase and the meals described so beautifully. No one else could have done this book justice as narrator. I enjoyed every word.

My stomach growled, I laughed out loud, and I cried.

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I felt like Rick Bragg took me on a wonderful journey back in time. This memoir is absolutly wonderful. I felt like I had been there. It is great I even purchased the book.

Felt my self on a journey

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I wasn't ten minutes into the book before I dreaded the day I would be finished. Bragg's writing, as always, is phenomenal, and one could not find anyone better than Bragg to do the narration. At the end of stressful, hectic days, his soothing Southern drawl would relax me almost as much a massage. I even enjoyed listening to him read the recipes though it sometimes made my mouth water and my stomach growl.

This Book Will Make Your Mouth Water

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I usually cook with Lawry's instead of plain salt. Bot, was I wrong. Tried salt and light pepper, as "momma" says and discovered a world of natural flavor.
The short tales mixed with the recipes is a perfect story of old days. Brilliant and engaging story of a life.

Taught me a lot

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Love the way the recipes are presented! There may be hope for my granddaughters! Thank you.

The food of my people!

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