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Consuming Passions - by Michael Lee West (Paperback)

Consuming Passions - by  Michael Lee West (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the author of "Crazy Ladies" comes a jambalaya of treasured family recipes as well as a recounting of her trials and tribulations as a Southern woman who became an accidental gourmet.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Consuming Passions</em> is Michael Lee West's delightfully quirky memoir of an adventurous life centered around food and family&#8212the story of how she went from non-cook to gourmet of words and victuals by watching a multitude of relatives squabble, prepare sumptuous repasts, and carry on honored traditions. Laced with delicious secret recipes passed from generation to generation, West's irresistible chronicle recalls good times and wild times&#8212mothers swinging from chandeliers, elderly aunts brewing up love potions, a South American nymphomaniac stirring up trouble at a Louisiana barbeque joint, and the spooky hauntings of a cabbage-eating ghost&#8212all in the pursuit of good dining. Thoroughly entertaining, alive with West's distinctive humor and sharp, irrepressible insight, here are incomparable American kitchen tales as warm and tasty as freshly baked bread.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Every Sunday, the whole family gathered at Mama Hughes's house in Amite County, Mississippi. They were ferocious eaters and talkers, devouring rumors and innuendo with gusto. Food was their common language, and everyone undertstood the dialects."--Aunt Tempe, reminiscing about family dinners"A scrumptiously witty memoir about family, food, and the American South."--"People"A must-read...Everything about "Consuming Passions--from the title to the recipes--just drips with Southern charm."--"Denver Post<br>

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