White Trash Cooking II
Recipes for Gatherin's
by Ernest Matthew Mickler
Overview
ANNOTATION:
"...marvelous and genuine -not camp- because it sees clearly, without condescnesion. The food goes from awful...to very good. The language sings throughout."--Barbara Kakfa, Vogue
My Thoughts
Bah. I don't know what possessed me to pick up this book. I saw it in the hardware store when I was looking for one of those cutesy notepads, and for some obviously insane reason I picked it up thinking it would make a fun gift. WRONG!
The stories in the book simply are not funny, and the recipes just mediocre. Just my opinion.
Favorite Passage
I have no favorite passage, but here's one for you to read:
"Right then, while she was wrenchin that mess outta her hair, Oleen asked er, at the real foot washin, not the rehearsal, what did them Itta Bena ladies bring to eat?" Loumie went on, taking the story to an abrupt turn.
Iris didn't stand still for it and said, as if she was going to choke Loumie, "You are pullin my leg! With Oleen's appetite for dirt, she'da never asked Connetta any such thing in the middle of that kinda story -- or your hair ain't purple" . . . . . . . . . "Oh God, I didn't mean that Loumie! I meant Connetta's hair. Yours is just a shade darker than it usually is."
And here's a recipe to share:
Picnic Tartar Sauce
1 cup Hellmann's mayonnaise
1/4 cup dill pickle relish
1 tsp grated onion
1 Tbs chopped canned pimiento
Stir together and put in the icebox to chill or take the stuff and make it when you get there.
Makes a bit more than a cup.
