![]() In spite of having no recipes written down, she has them stored in her brain, and can tell her son how she puts ingredients together. And I just paid attention, and I done what they done …” “It’s all I’ve ever been real good at, and people always bragged on my cooking … you know, ‘cept those who don’t know what’s good.” As a girl, she sat in the kitchen of old women as they talked “about their sorry old men and their good food and the good Lord, and they would cook. But most of us did not grow up in the hardscrabble backwaters of our neighboring state, where Margaret Bragg paid attention to an older generation of seasoned cooks. “I am a cook.” And she proves it by cooking, making it up as she goes along. Now he has written the ultimate tribute to her entitled “The Best Cook in the World.” It is a moving, entertaining insider’s view of Margaret Bragg, a remarkable woman who has never owned a cookbook or written down a recipe. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has written eight books, including the acclaimed “All Over but the Shoutin’ - a tribute to Alabama and his extraordinary mother. And has been writing for more years than he wants to admit about Southern culture, and food, and his interesting family members. ATR readers will recognize the name of Rick Bragg, son of Alabama who rose to fame at the New York Times, then came home to Alabama where he belonged. ![]()
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