Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family

by Kathleen Flinn

This family history with recipes offers a flavorful tale spanning three generations as Flinn returns to the mix of food and memoir readers loved in her best-seller The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry. From a Route 66 trek to San Francisco to their Michigan farm to the shores of Florida, humor and adventure defines her family even in the worst of times. You'll savor Uncle Clarence's divine corn-flake-crusted fried chicken, Grandpa Charles' spicy San Antonio chili and her grandmother's birthday-only cinnamon rolls. Through these flavors, Flinn came to understand how meals can be memories and cooking can be communication. Brimming with warmth and wit, readers will delight in this revealing look at a family that just might resemble your own.--From publisher description.

• ISBN10: 067001544X
• ISBN13: 9780670015443
• Publish Date: 14 August 2014
• Publish Status: Remaindered
• Out of Print: 9 February 2017
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Imprint: Viking
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[lovelybookshelf]

This is a multigenerational comfort read for anyone who enjoys memoirs. Foodies will appreciate how each chapter ends with related recipes. I alternately laughed and cried throughout the book. And the ending? The ending was just perfect. She could not have wrapped up the memoir any better. Loved this book! Read my full review of this title at A Lovely Bookshelf on the Wall.