Summary
Bragg presents a food memoir, cookbook, and tribute to his mother. Margaret Bragg does not own a single cookbook, measures ingredients by "dabs" and judges "done" by look and smell. Her son shares classic family recipes-- many of them pre-dating the Civil War-- as well as preparation secrets for tra... Full description
- Prologue: It takes a lot of rust to wipe away a General Electric
- "Them shadows get to dancin'"
- "Salt is good"
- A man who knew beans
- Sweeter, after the frost
- "A chicken ... ain't likely to ketch on"
- The fourth bear
- The falling cow
- "Hard times, come around no more"
- "A ham hock don't call for help"
- Cakes of gold
- Sis
- The second ghost
- Bitter weeds
- Still hard times for an honest man
- The pie that never was
- Ribs in the dead of night
- Clementine
- Tomatoes without taste, tomatoes without end
- Didelphis Virginiana
- Stairway to nowhere
- People who cook
- Blackberry winter
- Till it thunders
- Offerings
- Government cheese
- Sometimes the pies just call your name
- Red's
- "When Momma was all right"
- Monkey on a string
- Edna's ark
- Staggering to glory
- The runaway
- "Untimely figs"
- Spring
- Epilogue: The recipe that never was.