Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good

Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good

By Kathleen Flinn
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“Craving a beach read with a bite? Kathleen Flinn’s new memoir, Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good, chronicles her Midwestern family’s culinary adventures, starting with a move cross-country to run her uncle’s pizzeria. There are plenty of hilarious missteps (like a maybe-don’t-try-this-at-home experience raising chickens), but food is a blissful constant, even in the craziest of times. And the book is filled with recipes—Grandpa’s Mich-Mex chili, Mom’s cinnamon rolls—so you can create some memorable family meals of your own.”

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A delicious memoir from the author of The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry

In this family history interwoven with recipes, Kathleen Flinn returns readers to the mix of food and memoir beloved by readers of her bestselling The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good explores the very beginnings of her love affair with food and its connection to home. It is the story of her Midwestern childhood, its memorable home cooks, and the delicious recipes she grew up with. Flinn shares tales of her parents' pizza parlor in San Francisco, where they sold Uncle Clarence's popular oven-fried chicken, as well as recipes for the chili made by former army cook Grandpa Charles, fluffy Swedish pancakes from Grandma Inez, and cinnamon rolls for birthday breakfasts. Through these dishes, Flinn came to understand how meals can be memories and how cooking can be a form of communication.

Brimming with warmth and wit, this book is sure to appeal to Flinn's many fans, as well as readers of Marcus Samuelsson, Ruth Reichl, and Julie Powell.

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  1. Rogue Writer

    Comfort Food for the Ears

    This book reads like neither a good memoir or cooking-related story. It was, however, comforting just like the foods she references. It felt more like a tribute to her dad and her mom’s mom. I related with many of the author’s experiences, as well as her family’s lifestyle, especially where the poverty plays out. As an added delight is the way each chapter ends with a recipe from her youth (included as bonus material). Few of them are inspiring or new, but they sound like delicious home-cooking. I tried out the spaghetti sauce concentrate recipe to great effect and have added it to my home recipe collection.

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