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Eatin' Low on the Hog |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Roger L Welsch |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1989 |
| Size: 5,136 Words, 29,233 Characters |
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WHITE TRASH COOKING
Ernest Matthew Mickler
Berkley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 1986
134 pp., $12.95
SINKIN SPELLS, HOT FLASHES, FITS AND CRAVINS
Ernest Matthew Mickler
Berkley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 1988
158 pp., $14.95
In these table-top cookbooks, Ernest Matthew Mickler has sought to explore whimsically the foodways (not simply the foods) of the lower class of America's Southeast. I suspect that Mickler and many of his readers would argue that a good many people from that region and class have spread to other parts of the country, and that many people from other parts of the country have adopted White Trash ways, even if they have never ventured outside the city limits of Los Angeles or Butte, Montana. The food described in these books depicts a foods system reaching well...
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... his own byline and continue to publish the poetry of the people with quiet admiration and without superfluous adornment. Then we can look forward to his next book with honest enthusiasm.
I may be ready for some advice myself. I am uneasy that my son Chris gave me my copy of White Trash Cooking for Christmas a couple years ago, saying, "Dad, this book just made me think of you." Hmmm.
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