Fruitcake: Heirloom Recipes and Memories of Truman Capote & Cousin Sook
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Fruitcake is a jaunty little collection of heirloom fruitcake recipes selected by Marie Rudisill from a nineteenth-century family farm journal owned by Sook Faulk, a cousin of Rudisill and Truman Capote, who immortalized Sook in his novella, A Christmas Memory. Rudisill, made famous as "The Fruitcake Lady" on Jay Leno's Tonight Show, aims to elevate the much-maligned reputation of what she calls "the queen of cakes" in this book,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807899305
ISBN13:9780807899304
Release Date:September 2010
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:96 Pages
Weight:0.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.0" x 7.5"
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