Last year I shared with you the great memoir, and recipe book, Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good from Kathleen Flinn. And as you can see below, it has a new cover!
Synopsis:
Kathleen Flinn has found her way into the hearts of readers, cooks, and food lovers everywhere with her New York Times best selling books.This new book delves into the origins of Flinn’s love of all things culinary. Hearing the touching and hilarious adventures and misadventures of her clan will put readers in mind of their own quirky family history and the flavors of their childhoods.
The food we grow up with often tells our family history, and that’s certainly true of the Flinns. Until Flinn began looking into the lives of her ancestors, she hadn’t realized how many of them cooked, either for a living or as a hobby. Flinn tells the story of her maternal and paternal grandparents, her besotted parents, and her motley group of siblings. Flinn takes readers from San Francisco in 1958 where her parents helped her Uncle Clyde run a pizza place (at that time, a rarity) to a farm in Davison, Michigan in 1964 where the family roots were, to Anna Maria Island, Florida in 1976 where they found a second home. Foodie tales of fishing trips (her father’s favorite way to relax), canning season, discovering morels in the woods, and finally getting to eat popular processed foods, mingle with family stories of a shady grandfather, unsuccessful entrepreneurial ventures, and gaining membership to the German-American club . . . despite having no German ancestry.
Flinn’s Grandma Inez inspired the title with a phrase she liked to use when trying to get a picky child to eat—“Burnt toast makes you sing good. Everyone knows that.” she’d quip. After reading about Grandma Inez’s wisdom, Grandpa Charles’s love for chili powder, and Mom Flinn’s mishap with the chicken coop, readers will be ready to run into the kitchen to try one of the recipes that ends each chapter. Grandma Inez’s Pancakes, Grandpa Charles’s “Mich-Mex” Chili, and Chicken and Biscuits are just a few of the mouth-watering dishes that Flinn shares from the family recipe book.
Review:
(from original review)
(from original review)
Kathleen is a born storyteller! Her books grab you from page one, and hold onto you and your imagination, until the last page is turned, so it's no surprise that this book is full of charm and wit as well! To be it was pretty much like strolling back through my childhood- family moving across country, working moms, reading the entire set of encyclopedias, family canning days, road trip vacations, Chevy Vegas, ill tasting TV dinners that seemed like 'the thing', parties at the VFW, and life lessons learned at the knee of crazy relatives. We've all been there. This book will have you laughing and crying! As with my family- love is shared from the food we make, the recipes we hand down, and the traditions shared over cooking those recipes for family functions and get-togethers. Kathleen shares her family's recipes in the book, along with tales of when they were used and how some of them came about. This book is a quick read- perfect for reading a chapter here and there, like in car line picking up the kids, or waiting on them at practice after school! It also would make a great gift idea), and I highly recommend it!
Recipe:
How about a great chili recipe from the book, just in time for Fall (if it ever freakin gets here....)
Recipe:
How about a great chili recipe from the book, just in time for Fall (if it ever freakin gets here....)
Giveaway:
One BTHM reader will win a paperback copy of Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good
One BTHM reader will win a paperback copy of Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good
About the Author
KATHLEEN FLINN and her books have been featured in People, ELLE, Bon Appetit, The Wall Street Journal, and on NPR and CBS Morning News. Her first book, The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry was a New York Times bestseller. Her acclaimed second book, The Kitchen Counter Cooking School was named a 2012 Nonfiction Book of the Year by the American Society of Journalists & Authors. Learn more at her website, www.cookfearless.com
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