Release Day Highlight + Giveaway: Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good by Kathleen Flinn

Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family
Author: Kathleen Flinn
Genre: Nonfiction/Memoir
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Publisher: Viking Adult

Description:

A delicious memoir from the author of The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry

In this family history interwoven with recipes, Kathleen Flinn returns readers to the mix of food and memoir beloved by readers of her bestselling The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good explores the very beginnings of her love affair with food and its connection to home. It is the story of her midwestern childhood, its memorable home cooks, and the delicious recipes she grew up with. Flinn shares tales of her parents’ pizza parlor in San Francisco, where they sold Uncle Clarence’s popular oven-fried chicken, as well as recipes for the vats of chili made by her former army cook Grandpa Charles, fluffy Swedish pancakes from Grandma Inez, and cinnamon rolls for birthday breakfasts. Through these dishes, Flinn came to understand how meals can be memories, and how cooking can be a form of communication. Brimming with warmth and wit, this book is sure to appeal to Flinn’s many fans as well as readers of Marcus Samuelsson, Ruth Reichl, and Julie Powell. 

Praise:

“Flinn affectionately recalls her family and growing up in the counties surrounding Flint, Michigan…[She] summons up memories of family dinners and of foods the older women of her extended family cooked so carefully and lovingly.”—Booklist

“A warm, quietly poignant treat.”—Kirkus  
  

KATHLEEN FLINN and her books have been featured in People, ELLE, Bon Appetit, The Wall Street Journal, and on NPR and CBS Morning News. Her first book, The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry was a New York Times bestseller. Her acclaimed second book, The Kitchen Counter Cooking School was named a 2012 Nonfiction Book of the Year by the American Society of Journalists & Authors. Learn more at www.cookfearless.com. 

Giveaway: The awesome people at Viking are letting me give away (1) hardcover copy of Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good to a lucky winner! US Only!

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