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Appetizers from “The Best Cook in the World”
The following are quotations from The Best Cook in the World, which drew me in immediately with its humor and evocations of family dinners year past. The book is a tribute to the author’s mother, consisting of some of her … Continue reading
The Best Cook in the World
The Best Cook in the World: Tales from my Momma’s Table © 2018 Rick Bragg 512 pages “Good stuff always has a story,” she said. One of my New Years resolutions is to cook more, and that has unexpectedly introduced … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama, American South, cooking, food and drink, humor, Rick Bragg
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This and that
Well, good news and bad news. The good news is…my book buying ban is OVER, so I have five books on the way. A few are for next year, but I may try a couple beforehand: Rubbish: The Archaeology of … Continue reading
The USS Alabama
Images of America: USS Alabama© 2013 Kent Whitaker & Battleship Memorial Park128 pages When visiting downtown Mobile, one can’t help but notice the enormous battleship parked in the bay. It’s the USS Alabama, tenth to bear the name, and its … Continue reading
Mockingbird Songs
Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee© 2017 Wayne Flynt251 pages When I read Poor but Proud by Wayne Flynt some years ago, I never imagined I’d meet the author, let alone help him carry in boxes of books for … Continue reading
Of Caesar, Aeneas, and Selma
This past week I’ve been dogsitting in the country, and if you’ve never enjoyed a rural sunset with a glass of wine and Chloe Feoranzo playing in the background, it’s an experience I can recommend. While I was away, February … Continue reading
Yesterday: Memories of Selma
Yesterday: Memories of Selma and her People© 1940 C.C. Grayson 155 pages (For want of a book cover, I’m including a photograph of Selma’s main street in the early 20th century, after 1891 but before 1926.) In the 1940s, … Continue reading
These Rugged Days
These Rugged Days: Alabama in the Civil War© 2017 John Sledge296 pages Although Alabama was not the site of as many bloody battles as Virginia and Tennessee in the Civil War, it was not a quiet backwater only troubled at … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama, American Civil War, American South, history, John Sledge, military, Selma
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Visiting Harper Lee
On Saturday I visited the boyhood home of Hank Williams in Georgiana, and then decided — since I was in the neighborhood — to drive a bit further into the woods and go to Monroeville, the hometown of Harper Lee. … Continue reading
The Unvanquished
The Unvanquished© 1938 William Faulkner254 pages Years ago in a ninth-grade literature class, I chose to read a book by William Faulkner for a class project on the basis that he was a southern writer. My teacher cautioned me against … Continue reading
