| Pig Tails 'n Breadfruit: A Culinary Memoir Contributor(s): Clarke, Austin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1565845803 ISBN-13: 9781565845800 Publisher: New Press OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2000 Annotation: Part cookbook and part family history, this tantalizing memoir by an important Caribbean novelist provides a unique portrait of growing up in Barbados in the late 1930s and early 1940s, showing the connection between the land's traditional food and its troubled history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | Essays & Narratives - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 00021756 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.72" W x 8.46" (0.88 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Praised as masterful by the New York Times and uncommonly talented by Publishers Weekly and winner of the 1999 Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award, Austin Clarke has a distinguished reputation as one of the preeminent Caribbean writers of our time. In Pig Tails 'n Breadfruit, he has created a tantalizing culinary memoir of his childhood in Barbados. Clarke describes how he learned traditional Bajan cooking--food with origins in the days of slavery, hardship, and economic grief--by listening to this mother, aunts, and cousins talking in the kitchen as they prepared each meal. Pig Tails 'n Breadfruit is not a recipe book; rather, each chapter is devoted to a detailed description of the ritual surrounding the preparation of a particular native dish--Oxtails with Mushrooms, Smoked Ham Hocks with Lima Beans, or Breadfruit Cou-Cou with Braising Beef. Cooking here, as in Clarke's home, is based not on precise measurements, but on trial and error, taste and touch. As a result, the process becomes utterly sensual, and the author's exquisite language artfully translates sense into words, creating a rich and intoxicating personal memoir. |