The Best Cook in the World by Rick Bragg

He slows the car to make sure it’s not his mother. the characters remain indelible, as when Bragg writes how he sometimes sees an old woman tottering along the roadside, stuffing poke salad greens into a burlap bag. Most of the book’s recipes are gloriously tempting examples from that canon – hand-mixed biscuits swimming in sweet cinnamon-scented milk, ham and redeye gravy, pecan pie, cracklin’ cornbread, even creamed onions that sound simple but are harder than they look to cook to perfection. He also recognizes how “blue-collar Southern cooks” use time and skill to transform humble ingredients into rapturous feasts. By turns grim and funny, he can describe the flavors of raccoon, possum, bear, even squirrel brains (cook them with scrambled eggs, 'to cut down on that metal taste,' his mother advises), making it clear that they’re desperation meals for people with no better options. If you have already purchased a copy of The Best Cook from us, we have a ticket for you! Contact confirm.įor groups looking to sit together, please choose one person in your group to prepurchase all of the books at one time in one of the following ways: Order through our website and include your group size in the Comments field on the checkout page, or email a group contact name/number.The book includes 75 recipes, which read like oral tradition even though they’re written down (one ingredient list includes both lard and luck.) The stories surrounding each meal are just as rich. Receive a signing line ticket with all QRB purchases of The Best Cook. In The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma’s Table, veteran Southern storyteller Rick Bragg serves up a love letter to the Braggs and the Bundrums and their extended family, and a.

General unreserved seating may also be available. Place your order now to claim one of a limited number of reserved seats (one seat per book purchase). More than anything, you are taken with the back-and-forth between Bragg and his down to earth, matter of fact, shy but fiesty mother. But most of all, his mother's voice comes through loud and clear. From lost cows to dead hogs to giant turtles, his stories feature grandparents and great-grandparents, aunts and uncles. QRB Floor Manager, Helley, loved this book: 'This is the funniest cookbook in the world! It is packed with old-fashioned Southern recipes, and Bragg's brilliant storytelling and old black-and-white photographs bring his relatives to life. As he writes, 'A recipe is a story like anything else.'

Rick Bragg will be joining us to share the stories of the seventy-four mouthwatering Bragg family recipes that are included.

From beloved Southern author, Rick Bragg, comes a rollicking regional tribue that is part memoir, part cookbook, and all heart.

The Best Cook in the World by Rick Bragg