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Starting from Scratch: Memoirs of a Wandering Cook
by Patty Kirk
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson (2008-01-01)
ISBN: 078522047X
EAN: 9780785220473
Dewey Decimal #: 641.5
Hardcover: 288 pages
SKU: 080621009
Condition: New
Comments: 078522047X New, never opened, multiple copies available, we have a large selection of NEW Christian books at great prices! New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
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. 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. 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. Starting from Scratch narrates Kirk's wanderings in the U.S. 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.
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Customer Reviews
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Irresistible!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-01-25
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
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 to do with food, from shopping for and cooking it to savoring the results, are so consistently mouth-watering that I found myself hungry from first page to last.
But mainly I just relish Kirk's writing, so much so that I even read the recipes with which she concludes each chapter - and I am no cook. I am, however, quite an accomplished eater. In fact, I often thank the Lord for making our source of fuel a source of pleasure. He could, after all, have powered us with something tasteless and texture-less, something that we would've resorted to only when we were running low on energy. Instead, He gave us an almost infinite variety of palate-pleasing treasures. And now, thanks to Kirk and her insights, I know there's even more to be grateful for.
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