![]() ![]() “Affectionate, funny, and beautifully written. he’s a ferociously devoted son.” - The Christian Science Monitor ![]() a leisurely, soulful storyteller, a reporter with a poet’s eye, and an appreciative diner. “Bragg has a bone-deep empathy for people who endure hard times. Both an incredibly evocative portrait of mother and a collection of his mother’s recipes.” -Ed Levine, Serious Eats “The stories, as much as the portrait they paint of family and their times, are baroque and profane, simultaneously moral and amoral, loving and blunt.” - San Francisco Chronicle A love song to the woman who raised him and who has been his greatest muse.” - The New Orleans Advocate Bragg’s deep love for his mother, and her cooking, shines throughout.” - Tampa Bay Times “Put together, all those stories read like a lush and lyrical novel, sometimes hilarious, sometimes harrowing. “A loving, recipe-filled ode.” - Garden & Gun “A tribute, a monument, to mother and her people, captured here in solid recipes for good food, charming details and funny conversations.” - The Wall Street Journal His just happens to be a family of excellent cooks who do much of their relating through the food they grow, hunt, prepare and occasionally steal.” - The New York Times Book Review and he does it better than almost anybody else. ![]() “Wonderful, rollicking, poignant, sometimes hilarious tales about how generations of Bragg’s extended family survived from one meal to the next.” - USA Today ![]()
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