Stirring Prose: Cooking with Texas Authors

by Deborah Douglas

Book Overview

Stirring Prose: Cooking with Texas Authors is a delightfully revealing look at some of Texas's best writers. Initially conceived as a Who's Who of Texas authors, Deborah Douglas quickly realized that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890968292
• ISBN13: 9780890968291
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

An entertaining who's-who of top Texas writers.

Some 39 of the best Texas writers get a chance to tell about themselves with essays about favorite meals, stories about growing up, and recipes that have special meaning. It's a wonderful way to showcase some of the best writers in the country -- letting us have a slice of their personal life. Entertaining stories from Kinky Friedman, Liz Carpenter, Naomi Nye, Robert and Jean Flynn, Molly Ivins and many others. And some of these folks can actually cook. The author, Deborah Douglas, writes witty, insightful essays as introductions to each of the writers' pieces. There's even a web site for the book.

A primer for Texas cooking and Texas spirit

This is a fresh look at some (most?) of Texas's most talented literary sons and daughters. Whether you're following Cindy Bonner's recipe for Bohemian Kolaches or soaking up some of Clay Reynold's Texas attitude, this book is an easy read. And Deborah Douglas's intros are insightful and funny.