Looks like a cookbook, reads like A Prarie Home Companion.
I needed a palate cleanser after The Metaphysical Club so I pulled a thin volume off the shelf and dug into Dotsey Welliver's Every Meal A Holiday. This is charming, well-written nostalgia of her mother's adventures as a Mississippi tug boat cook, but more than that, it's a slice of family life in the American South when hitchhiking was safe and toilets were in a spidery wooden shed out back. It makes a perfect nightstand book, every chapter a different tale told in Ms. Welliver's rollicking, delicious style and peppered with wisdom and recipes, reserved for dipping into while wrapped in a cozy blanket, savoring a few bites then saving some stories for later. I'll be making her mother's banana cake this weekend and you're welcome to join me - just hitch a ride on down!
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