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Author Flinn, Kathleen, author.

Title Burnt toast makes you sing good : a memoir of food and love from an American Midwest family / Kathleen Flinn.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Viking, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  641.5977 FLINN    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. FLINN, K.    Storage
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY FLINN, KATHLEEN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 FLINN, KAT    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  641.5977 FLINN    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-FLINN FAMILY    Check Shelf
Description xii, 266 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Note Subtitle in pre-publication: Recipes of love, loss, and adventure from an American Midwest family.
Summary This family history with recipes offers a flavorful tale spanning three generations as Flinn returns to the mix of food and memoir readers loved in her best-seller The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry. From a Route 66 trek to San Francisco to their Michigan farm to the shores of Florida, humor and adventure defines her family even in the worst of times. You'll savor Uncle Clarence's divine corn-flake-crusted fried chicken, Grandpa Charles' spicy San Antonio chili and her grandmother's birthday-only cinnamon rolls. Through these flavors, Flinn came to understand how meals can be memories and cooking can be communication. Brimming with warmth and wit, readers will delight in this revealing look at a family that just might resemble your own.--From publisher description.
Contents That's amore -- The farm on Coldwater Road -- Morels in May -- The queen of Mancelona -- Playing chicken -- Birthday dinner -- Pie for radio -- Fish stories -- Top picker -- Deer hunting season -- Lemon pie -- Paid in eggs -- Hill Street blues -- Danke -- Sunshine state -- Veterans of foreign wars -- Don't tell our parents -- Dollhouse -- How far is heaven.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-266) and index.
Subject Cooking, American -- Midwestern style.
Flinn, Kathleen -- Family.
Cooks -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Cookbooks.
ISBN 9780670015443 (hardback)
067001544X (hardback)
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