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Ebony, Dec, 2004
WARNING: Don't read Maya Angelou's new book while hungry. IN HALLELUJAH! THE WELCOME TABLE, A LIFETIME OF MEMORIES WITH RECIPES (Random House, $29.95), the best-selling author and literary treasure accomplishes the nearly impossible in producing what she calls a "cooking memoir about food." Throughout her life good food has played a central role.
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In this book she not only shares more than 100 recipes, she also shares the poignant, pithy and sometimes hilarious memories that accompany each dish. "My grandmother told me, 'Sister, a Black woman ought to know what to do with a hog from the rooter to the tooter." Although her grandmother said that 50-60 years ago, she says it is still true. "Food can be used as a device to flirt, and maybe win the beloved, to seek and maybe find a promotion or a job; it can be and has been used and will be used as a device to bring about kindness, courtesy and even closure where people have been estranged. You really can use food as a reconciliatory item. It's amazing." This cookbook is a tour-de-force collaboration of two of Angelou's major passions--writing and cooking.
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