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by: Maya Angelou
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5973
EAN: 9781400062898
ISBN: 1400062896
Label: Random House
Manufacturer: Random House
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: September 21, 2004
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: September 21, 2004
Sales Rank: 174917
Studio: Random House
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Product Description:
Throughout Maya Angelou’s life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her world travels as a bestselling writer, good food has played a central role. Preparing and enjoying homemade meals provides a sense of purpose and calm, accomplishment and connection. Now in Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, Angelou shares memories pithy and poignant–and the recipes that helped to make them both indelible and irreplaceable.
Angelou tells us about the time she was expelled from school for being afraid to speak–and her mother baked a delicious maple cake to brighten her spirits. She gives us her recipe for short ribs along with a story about a job she had as a cook at a Creole restaurant (never mind that she didn’t know how to cook and had no idea what Creole food might entail). There was the time in London when she attended a wretched dinner party full of wretched people; but all wasn’t lost–she did experience her initial taste of a savory onion tart. She recounts her very first night in her new home in Sonoma, California, when she invited M. F. K. Fisher over for cassoulet, and the evening Deca Mitford roasted a chicken when she was beyond tipsy–and created Chicken Drunkard Style. And then there was the hearty brunch Angelou made for a homesick Southerner, a meal that earned her both a job offer and a prophetic compliment: “If you can write half as good as you can cook, you are going to be famous.”
Maya Angelou is renowned in her wide and generous circle of friends as a marvelous chef. Her kitchen is a social center. From fried meat pies, chicken livers, and beef Wellington to caramel cake, bread pudding, and chocolate éclairs, the one hundred-plus recipes included here are all tried and true, and come from Angelou’s heart and her home. Hallelujah! The Welcome Table is a stunning collaboration between the two things Angelou loves best: writing and cooking.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Cookbook
None comes better. The recipes are honest and measure up to the quality of the author! Props to Sister Angelou !
Rating: - Maya Delivers
A wonderful mix of story and recipe.
As I try these wonderful southern dishes I recall her stories and I can sense the history of the dish.
the caramel cake is worth 10x the price of the book alone.
Rating: - Hallelujah! The Welcome Table
I love this cookbook. I have already tried some recipes from it. Almost three weeks passed, however, before I received it. I am very satisfied with it.
Rating: - Magical Maya
My daughter reproduced the same Caramel Cake that Maya made as a guest on Martha Stewart's show, for my birthday last fall...oh my gosh, it was so good!
So good that I gave her Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, for Christmas.
It is a warm and wonderful book, chock full of memories and yummy recipes...including the Caramel Cake.
Rating: - Hallelujah, the welcome table
The book is great, I also bought the cd which is great and expected recipes to be read on it and there were none except for a few on recipe cards. Good that I bought the book because I was really looking for the recipes.
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