Sinkin Spells, Hot Flashes, Fits and Cravins

by Ernest Matthew Mickler

Gathers recipes for breads, casseroles, salads, vegetables, eggs, fish, meat, desserts, and special holiday dishes

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

158 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Miss Kelly]

Full of Lard and fat but down on the home recipes.

[Tressa]

Another poignant look at southern cooking, this time highlighting the church and social gatherings of the south. Picnics, funerals, weddings, and Christmas parties round out the book. Included are more great photos of my favorite southern people and places.

[Katherine]

Received as a Christmas present. It's an ok book as a humor piece, but very few recipes in it I'd actually consider making.

[Gloria]

Even better than the first one !

[MB]

Either you read cookbooks like other people read novels, or you don't.

I don't read this book for the recipes, which are fascinating. I read it for the stories that begin each chapter of the book. I don't think anyone has ever capture dialogue or dialect quite as well as Mickler did.

Every so often, I take this off the shelf and reread those stories. Because you can tell a lot about people from how they report on a funeral, or manage a family reunion, or steam through menopause.