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Initially conceived as a Who's Who of Texas authors, Stirring Prose was born of Deborah Douglas's brilliant deduction that asking authors to write about their favorite recipes freed them from "the big toe-digging constraints of having to talk directly about themselves". Thirty-nine Texas writers offered up a favorite concoction, and their reflections about the recipe's genesis and meaning give revealing glimpses of their personalities and writing styles.
Not a traditional cookbook in the Betty Crocker sense, Stirring Prose is distinctively personal. Billy Porterfield reveals his fantasies about a voluptuous restaurant owner and a dream-enhanced recipe for "game hen fricassee with a French New Guinea twist". Sunny Nash gives an enticing snapshot of her grandmother. Bigmama, and divulges the secret to beautiful skin with Bigmama's Mysterious Rose Water Splash. And John Erickson shares his Bachelor Cowboy's Delight, the meal he eats over and over when his wife and children are out of town, and which consists of steak, lettuce salad, and green peas.
Some of these recipes, such as Dr. (Larry L.) King's Asian Flu Hot Liquid Life-Saver, almost beg for a "do not try this at home" disclaimer. Others, such as Cindy Bonner's Bohemian Kolaches and Clay Reynolds's Tex-Mex Breakfast, will send readers straight to the kitchen for some serious egg breaking.
Each recipe is accompanied by a photograph, a publication list. and an engaging, personalized introduction by Douglas, herself a fine writer.
Although not a comprehensive collection of Texas writers (some writers are not yet authors, and some perhaps demurred for culinary or pecuniary reasons), Stirring Prose: Cooking with Texas Authors is adelicious introduction to Texas writers and a virtual dinner party to be enjoyed vicariously.
"If you crave a good book about Texas writers, look no further. Deborah Douglas' deliciously entertaining compilation has everything you need to know about what's cooking in some of your favorite authors' kitchens."--Laura Bush
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reviewed Stirring Prose: Cooking with Texas Authors on September 21, 2015
Stirring Prose: Cooking with Texas Authors
Nabhan, who is Lebanese-American, has made a name for himself in anthropology studying the relationship of traditional diets and health care among American Native populations, most specifically the Pima people in the southwest. Combining this with an interest in Middle Eastern adaptation to resources, he compares the cuisines of the Eastern Mediterranean with that of the pre-European Southwest in terms of agriculture, trade routes and food preservation and storage in desert context--the commonalities are extremely interesting (innovative irrigation and water collection projects, citrusy flavor profiles, hot/spicy food to bring on sweating as a coolant) while the differences in available animals, plants and seasonings, as well as Islamic and Jewish prohibitions on food highlights the vast separation. This is one of those that I could never quite work into the Food class reading list anywhere but is well worth reading.
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