num_pages: 288
description: A delicious memoir from the author of The Sharper Your Knife the Less You CryIn this family history interwoven with recipes Kathleen Flinn returns readers to the mix of food and memoir beloved by readers of her bestselling The Sharper Your Knife the Less You Cry. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good explores the very beginnings of her love affair with food and its connection to home. It is the story of her midwestern childhood its memorable home cooks and the delicious recipes she grew up with. Flinn shares tales of her parents pizza parlor in San Francisco where they sold Uncle Clarences popular oven-fried chicken as well as recipes for the vats of chili made by her former army cook Grandpa Charles fluffy Swedish pancakes from Grandma Inez and cinnamon rolls for birthday breakfasts. Through these dishes Flinn came to understand how meals can be memories and how cooking can be a form of communication. Brimming with warmth and wit this book is sure to appeal to Flinns many fans as well as readers of Marcus Samuelsson Ruth Reichl and Julie Powell.
language: English
title: Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family
publisher: Viking