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The Cornbread Gospels

by Crescent Dragonwagon

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and#8220;Cornbread? I LOVEcornbread!and#8221; For six years, thatand#8217;s the response Crescent Dragonwagon got when people asked her what she was writing about. Over time, she came to understand: Not only is hot, just baked cornbread delicious, it evokesand#8212;powerfullyand#8212;the heart, soul, and taste of home.

There is an abundance of satisfying cornbreads, as Crescent discovered when she followed the cornbread trail from the Appalachians to the Rockies to the Green Mountains. Traveling to family reunions, potlucks, tortilleras, stone-grinding mills, and the National Cornbread Festival in South Pittsburgh, Tennessee, she heard the stories, tasted the breads, learned the secrets. Join her in this overflowing cornucopia: over 200 irresistible recipes for cornbreads, muffins, fritters, pancakes, and go-withs. Cornbreads from below theMason-Dixon line (Skillet-Sizzled Buttermilk Cornbread, Truman Capoteand#8217;s Familyand#8217;s Alabama Cornbread) meet those from above (Durgin-Park Boston Cornbread, Vermont Maple-Sweetened Cornbread). Southwestern offeringsand#8212;Chou-Chouand#8217;s Dallas Hot Stuff Cornbread, delectable homemade tamales, and tortillas from scratchand#8212;meet internationals like Indiaand#8217;s Makki Ki Roti. A Thanksgiving with Crescentand#8217;s Sweet-Savory Cornbread Dressing is rapturous. Desserts like Very Lemony Gorgeous Cornmeal Pound Cake make any meal exceptional.

Along with this, Crescent gives us the greens, the beans, the salads, stews, and soups that accompany cornbread to perfection. And she tells us the stories, too. Enthusiastic and heartfelt, this thoughtful, exuberant love song to Americaand#8217;s favorite breadstuff and all that goes with it will embrace readers and cooks everywhere.

Review:

"This surprising, eccentric volume is full of curious anecdotes, history and cornbread lore, from tales of the Native Americans teaching Pilgrims to make cornbread, to stories of slaves living on little but 'ash cakes,' corn patties baked in the ashes of a fire. Most intriguing (and delicious) are the recipes themselves, which span the globe to find the happy taste of cornmeal in dozens of novel incarnations. Vermont Maple-Sweetened Cornbread is a classic, a medium-sweet skilletful of steaming yellow bread that makes a wonderful companion to baked beans or a mellow soup. Savory Onion-Scallion Corn Cakes are a spicy variation on the theme, livened up with a fresh green chile. Many recipes are for cornbread accompaniments, like a Golden Gazpacho that turns garden vegetables and lots of corn into an all-American version of the Spanish soup, and Patsy's Cornbread Salad, which mixes chunks of tomato, bacon and onion with cornbread for a Southern take on the Italian bread salad called panzanella. The most exciting corn-themed dishes come from less expected places: the labor-intensive but phenomenally flavorful Sancocho is a South American stew, and African Vegetable Mafe is dense with peanut butter and sauteed vegetables, perfect for sopping up." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Synopsis:

Traveling to family reunions, potlucks, stone-grinding mills, and the National Cornbread Festival in Tennessee, Crescent Dragonwagon learned that not only is hot, just baked cornbread delicious, it powerfully evokes the heart, soul, and taste of home. Here she shares more than over 200 irresistible recipes for cornbreads, muffins, fritters, pancakes, and go-withs.

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About the Author

Crescent Dragonwagon, the author of Passionate Vegetarianand Dairy Hollow House Soup andamp; Bread Cookbook, many childrenand#8217;s books, and two novels, was once innkeeper/chef at the acclaimed Dairy Hollow House in Eureka Spring, Arkansas. She now lives, writes, and bakes cornbread near Saxtons River, Vermont.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780761119166

Manufactured:

Workman Publishing

Publisher:

Workman Publishing

Manufactured:

Workman Publishing

Illustrator:

Wisnewski, Andrea

Author:

Dragonwagon Crescent

Subject:

Specific Ingredients - General

Subject:

Cookery (Corn)

Subject:

Corn bread

Subject:

Cooking and Food-General

Copyright:

2007

Publication Date:

20071131

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

, Y

Pages:

379

Dimensions:

7.48x7.50x.88 in. 1.37 lbs.

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Product details 379 pages Workman Publishing - 2010-05-10 English 9780761119166 Reviews:

"Publishers Weekly Review" by Publishers Weekly, "This surprising, eccentric volume is full of curious anecdotes, history and cornbread lore, from tales of the Native Americans teaching Pilgrims to make cornbread, to stories of slaves living on little but 'ash cakes,' corn patties baked in the ashes of a fire. Most intriguing (and delicious) are the recipes themselves, which span the globe to find the happy taste of cornmeal in dozens of novel incarnations. Vermont Maple-Sweetened Cornbread is a classic, a medium-sweet skilletful of steaming yellow bread that makes a wonderful companion to baked beans or a mellow soup. Savory Onion-Scallion Corn Cakes are a spicy variation on the theme, livened up with a fresh green chile. Many recipes are for cornbread accompaniments, like a Golden Gazpacho that turns garden vegetables and lots of corn into an all-American version of the Spanish soup, and Patsy's Cornbread Salad, which mixes chunks of tomato, bacon and onion with cornbread for a Southern take on the Italian bread salad called panzanella. The most exciting corn-themed dishes come from less expected places: the labor-intensive but phenomenally flavorful Sancocho is a South American stew, and African Vegetable Mafe is dense with peanut butter and sauteed vegetables, perfect for sopping up." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

"Synopsis" by Ingram, Traveling to family reunions, potlucks, stone-grinding mills, and the National Cornbread Festival in Tennessee, Crescent Dragonwagon learned that not only is hot, just baked cornbread delicious, it powerfully evokes the heart, soul, and taste of home. Here she shares more than over 200 irresistible recipes for cornbreads, muffins, fritters, pancakes, and go-withs.