Larissa's Breadbook: Ten Incredible Southern Women and Their Stories of Courage, Adventure, and Discovery

ISBN-13: 9781558538450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 256 str.

Lorraine Johnson-Coleman;Lorraine Johnson-Coleman

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Do you ever wonder what makes the South one of the most incredible places on Earth? As Larissa discovers, it's the awe-inspiring women. In this engaging story, ten remarkable women from rich and varied cultures share their words, their wit, their wisdom, and their lives.The language of these women "is colorful and nuanced and often poetic, and the folks whose lives the storyteller enters and exits are complicated and comic, and at the same time often tragic. This community, woven together by the storyteller's enchantments...is moving and memorable." Lois Parkinson Zamora, professor at University of Houston, made those comments about the stories in Just Plain Folks, Lorraine Johnson-Coleman's earlier work. But they could just as easily have been written about the characters in Larissa's BreadBook.

A cookbook, a gift book, a fascinating tale of Southern culture, Larissas Breadbook is a remarkable marriage of the fictional story of a young girls discovery of the different culture in her own backyard and a cookbook containing more than 150 bread recipes. From spoon bread and hoe cakes to bagels and Plantation French Bread, Larissas Breadbook is filled with recipes from ten rich and varied cultures living in the south: Rural African-American, Creole, Appalachian, White Aristocrat, Gullah, Cherokee, Jewish, Mexican American, Italian American, and Irish-American.