You'll always find three things in abundance in Mitford. Faith, fun, and food! Karon's down-home cookbook overflows with more than 150 recipes that appear in her popular novels and in her own cupboard-from Emma's roast pork to Miss Sadie's apple pie. You'll savor delightful side-dish sidebars, hints, humor, reminiscences, and for dessert: a never-before-published story.
Millions of Mitford fans around the world will agree—it’s easy to put on a pound or two reading a Mitford novel. Scene after scene of the bestselling series’ colorful characters enjoying tantalizing dishes can immediately start a craving. Then, before you know it, you’ve read several pages by the glow of the refrigerator lightbulb.
Packed with more than 150 recipes from the Mitford novels and from the author’s own recipe box, Jan Karon’s Mitford Cook-book & Kitchen Reader is loaded with tips, hints, jokes, culinary quotes, and delightful side-dish sidebars guaranteed to start a stomach rumbling. From Miss Sadie’s Apple Pie to Puny’s Cornbread, from Emma’s Pork Roast to Marge’s Sweet Tea with Peppermint, beloved characters come alive through their own favorite recipes. Here, too, are Karon’s reminiscences of her own family’s food traditions and—as dessert—four stories never before published in her books.
Jan Karon’s Mitford Cookbook & Kitchen Reader is a charming companion to the Mitford series that will have readers clamoring to bring into their own kitchens the aromas and flavors that swirl within the little town with the big heart.
Jan Karon writes “to give readers an extended family and to applaud the extraordinary beauty of ordinary lives.”
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Reviewed by Shirley Groves (Cameron, NY), January 23, 2008
WOW!! What a treasure! I love the Mitfrod series and I also love cookbooks and this book fits the bill. It brings the characters to life even more! Are we sure they aren't real people??
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