Starting from Scratch: Memoirs of a Wandering Cook
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (954 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 078522047X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
At six, she scrambled the last of the family's vacation provisions over the camp fire and concocted a delicacy-eggs with bacon and onions. Starting from Scratch narrates Kirk's wanderings in the U.S. Overnight she became the family cook and discovered a lifelong passion for cooking that accompanied her through decades of roaming and finally to the farm in Oklahoma where she now lives. and abroad from a culinary perspective, sounding the spiritual, political, and emotional depths of Brillat-Savarin's famous observation, "Tell me what you eat; I'll tell you who you are." In this candid and engaging food memoir---complete with recipes!---good food beckons from the past as well as the future: surrounding us, eluding us, drawing us, defining us.. A captivating memoir from a cook who's traveled across the globe cooking, tasting, and enjoying good food.Patty Kirk has always loved food: eating it, cooking it, sharing it, talking about it
Starting from scratch-Memoirs of a wandering cook Marina E. Potter This book is not only a great cook book but a great reader. I enjoyed all her comments and can only wait to try all of her recipes. I would recommendthis book to anyone who loves to read about old recipes and even some new one's I found.. Irresistible! Kitty Foth-Regner As beautifully written as this book is, I can't figure out why it isn't on every bestseller list. Kirk's descriptions of people, places, and events are irresistible. Of her 24 stand-alone yet interrelated chapters, my favorites are probably "The Summer Before the Jubilee," "The Oven," and "The Turkey," but in truth I savored every last one. And with only a few exceptions (one involving frogs), her descriptions of everything . Two Stars Started out great but toward the middle got nasty. I stopped reading it
She is Writer in Residence and an adjunct associate professor of English at John Brown University. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arkansas and has taught and/or studied in Berlin, Beijing, Hong Kong, Boston, New Orleans, and Irvine, California. She and her family live on a farm in eastern Oklahoma.. Patty Kirk is the author of Confessions of an Amateur Believ
She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arkansas and has taught and/or studied in Berlin, Beijing, Hong Kong, Boston, New Orleans, and Irvine, California. She and her family live on a farm in eastern Oklahoma.. She is Writer in Residence and an adjunct associate professor of English at John Brown University. About the AuthorPatty Kirk is the author of Confessions of an Amateur Believer