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This title in other editionsTalking with My Mouth Full: Crab Cakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen Storiesby Bonny Wolf
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:"As reassuring as a big bowl of buttery mashed potatoes...a delicious read." --Library Journal
What and how do American families really eat? Bonny Wolf writes about the great regional and family food traditions in this country--birthday cake and dinner party food, hearty American breakfasts and Fourth of July picnic dishes. In Talking with My Mouth Full, she writes stories about food, and also about the people who eat it.
Many of the delightful national treasures Wolf writes about--bundt cake, barbecue, roast chicken, fair food--are timeless. Each chapter, whether it's about true regional specialties like Minnesota's wild rice, Texas' Blue Bell ice cream or Maryland's famous crab cakes or about family favorites like noodle pudding or Irish raisin soda bread, ends with a perfectly chosen group of recipes, tantalizing and time-tested.
In the tradition of Laurie Colwin's Home Cooking, Talking with My Mouth Full is a book you will turn to over and over for wonderful food writing and recipes for comfort food, a great nosh, or the ideal covered dish to take to a potluck supper.
"Charming, lighthearted...refreshingly accessible."--Publishers Weekly "Savory collection of essays."--Washington Post "Delightful."--Austin Chronicle
Review:"In this charming, lighthearted collection of essays, Wolf, a commentator on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday, explores the foods we eat and the ways they bind us to one another. Much of the book is devoted to regional foods: a Minnesota native of Eastern European Jewish descent, Wolf has an abiding love of kugel as well as wild rice and state fair food on sticks. More than two decades living in the Washington, D.C., area has brought other edible joys, like products from the Eastern Market and a ritual shad roe dinner with friends. While not breaking any new journalistic ground, Wolf reports on popovers and pickled antipasto with enthusiasm, melding personal and culinary history, narrative and instruction. Her how-to pieces delve the difficulties that many home cooks struggle with, such as how to make the perfect roast chicken or rescue a dinner party disaster. Interspersed throughout these ruminations are the recipes she's collected from friends and family. It's clear that Wolf's sophisticated, well-traveled palate coexists peacefully with a predilection for the fuss-free, traditional foods that have never gone out of favor — ice cream with chocolate sauce and meatloaf. Readers will find both her writing and the cooking refreshingly accessible." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Synopsis:"I found myself moved and fascinated by Talking with My Mouth Full, thinking again and again how close food is to the heart of culture and how much it defines places, ethnicities, and, most of all, families. For virtually all of us, the foods we eat reflect a heritage as distinctive as our DNA. And this book is a funny, incisive -and, in every sense--delicious--exploration of those themes."
--from the foreword by Scott Turow Synopsis:NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday" food commentator goes deep into America's heartland to write about the food people actually eat for holidays, family gatherings, and comfort--with more than 70 recipes included.
About the AuthorBonny Wolf is a journalist who has worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers in New Jersey, Texas and Washington, D.C., where she lives. She has been a food commentator for National Public Radios Weekend Edition since 2003, is the host for NPRs food podcast “Kitchen Window,” and writes a food column for The Washington Post. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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