Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir with Recipes from an American Family by Kathleen Flinn

  • Uncle Clarence's oven-fried chicken
    • Categories: Main course
    • Ingredients: margarine; buttermilk; all-purpose flour; cornflakes; poultry seasoning; whole chicken; paprika
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  • Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

    Funny, heartfelt and a little wacky, Flinn’s third memoir gets to the bottom of her lifelong interest in food.

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  • Publishers Weekly

    Flinn's childhood sounds like a wonderful way to grow up, and her additions of mouthwatering Michigan recipes adds even more flavor to her memoir.

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  • ISBN 10 0143127691
  • ISBN 13 9780143127697
  • Published Aug 25 2015
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 288
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Penguin Books
  • Imprint Penguin Books

Publishers Text

A delicious new memoir from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry

A family history peppered with recipes, Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good offers a humorous and flavorful tale spanning three generations as Kathleen Flinn returns to the mix of food and memoir readers loved in her New York Times bestseller, The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry. Brimming with tasty anecdotes about Uncle Clarence’s divine cornflake-crusted fried chicken, Grandpa Charles’s spicy San Antonio chili, and Grandma Inez’s birthday-only cinnamon rolls, Flinn—think Ruth Reichl topped with a dollop of Julia Child—shows how meals can be memories, and how cooking can be communication. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good will inspire readers (and book clubs) to reminisce about their own childhoods—and spend time in their kitchens making new memories of their own.



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