There was all that life, but with the food that bolstered it, held it up. We wanted to tell the story of the food with all the color, drama, fightin’, shootin’, lovin’ and marryin’. I don’t know how scientifically necessary they are. Rick Bragg: Yeah, it’s a narrative going back more than a hundred years to the start of our food. What follows is an edited excerpt from an interview conducted for WYPL-FM’s "Book Talk" program.Ĭhapter 16: For some reason, I thought this was going to be a recipe book, and there are recipes in it, but it’s more like the ratio of pork in a mess of greens. In the particulars of his family’s struggle through the last century, he offers Southerners a chance to reflect on their own families’ stories and to be grateful for their ancestors’ strength, determination and guile in ensuring that the babies were fed. From a fugitive father teaching his son’s new wife how to stretch scant provisions, to a hog that “suicided itself” when the family was skipping out in the middle of the night to avoid paying rent, Bragg shows that good eating can sometimes make up for hard times. In "The Best Cook in the World," Rick Bragg brings together the two biggest aspects of Southern identity: storytelling and food.
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