![]() ![]() Momma has that odd mix of a working woman’s humility and a rigid pride in her craft and food. It’s kinda like how they didn’t ride with seat belts.Ĭhapter 16: When you told your momma that the book was going to be called "The Best Cook in the World," she was a little bit skeptical.īragg: She was afraid that it would be seen as boasting. So my grandmother would take a stick and draw a line in the dirt, and to the boys - who were barely human, so wild that they were barely of this species - she would say, “OK, you can’t cross this line.” I’m sure she did a lot of death-defying things while holding a baby on one hip. Can you imagine a big roiling pot of oil, as big as a Fiat, with all these kids running around, throwing rocks, screaming, making mud pies? ![]() No, you cook down your pork fat to get lard, and the cracklings are just this wonderful extra, but it is deadly dangerous. A lot of people think that you render lard to get cracklings. So how does a woman who has six or seven tow-headed kids running around keep focused enough to make the cooking good?īragg: With great difficulty. Chapter 16: If there was anything that kind of tied the recipes and the cooking together, it’s that you had to pay attention. ![]()
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