Former Kentucky Poet-Laureate Crystal Wilkinson‘s new book “Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks” is both a family memoir and a cookbook. She joins host Celeste Headlee to talk about it.
Book excerpt: ‘Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts’
By Crystal Wilkinson
Chicken and dumplings
Chicken and dumplings. (Courtesy)
Corn pudding
Corn pudding. (Courtesy)
Grandmother’s blackberry cobbler
Grandmother’s blackberry cobbler. (Courtesy)
Pine lick mutton leg and gravy
Pine lick mutton leg and gravy. (Courtesy)
Excerpted from “Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts,” reprinted with permission of Penguin Random House
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