Book Description
"IT'LL MAKE FOR SOME MIGHTY FINE EATING."
--Fort Worth Star Telegram
After the tremendous success of her novel, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, and the beloved movie that followed, author Fannie Flagg received thousands of requests from all over the world asking for recipes from the little cafe of her Alabama childhood that was the model for the cafe in her novel. Now, she joyfully shares those recipes, in what may well be the first cookbook ever written by a satisfied customer rather than a cook! Inside you'll find wonderful recipes for:
* Skinless Fried Chicken * Pork Chops with Apples and Sweet Potatoes * Baked Ham and Pineapple Rings * Baked Turkey with Traditional Cornbread Dressing * Black-eyed Peas * Fried Okra * Creamed Onions * Broccoli Casserole * Southern Cream Gravy * Fried Catfish * Scalloped Oysters * Down Home Crab Cakes * Beaten Biscuits * Corn Pones * Lemon Ice Box Pie * Kentucky Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie * And much more!
The recipes in Fannie Flagg's Original Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook are all for delicious hearty happy food that comes with all sorts of things, from gravies to hot sauces (very often the secret's in the sauce). But most of all this food, and this book, comes with love.
"If you liked her novel, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, and if you liked the movie they made from that novel, you'll like this cookbook....It's funny, just like Flagg."
--Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Recommended...All the traditional dishes are here, along with the author's irreverent, irresistible commentary on Southern cooking and culture."
--Library Journal
Customer Reviews:
thumb's up for Fannie Flagg.......2007-03-23
She has captured the flavor of many dishes from my childhood!!
Down-to-earth recipes.......2007-01-23
Down-to-earth recipes, with easy to follow directions, have made this cookbook one of my favorites. No fancy names or haute cusine -- just good home cooking. Perfect for those who have a "meat and potatoes" family like mine.
Fun to read and fun to cook from.......2007-01-03
The stories are great and the recipes are down home and delicious.
Bull.......2006-08-01
Anyone who thinks southerners eat this stuff is another one. They eat fast food, macaroniandcheese and other prepared stuff. Also and extrawise, I gather from some of the reviewers that this food, contrarytofactwise if they DID eat it, is better than Yankee food. No. Food has gotten better in this country, to be positive for once. Except DownSouth.
DownSouth, you eat in ethnic restaurants. Just like in England.
This is 'THE' Down Home Cooking Companion.......2006-07-13
I have bought a ton of cookbooks and this one has got to be my favorite. When you want comfort food, this is the book. I have now made a lot of the recipies and they are all perfect. Their smothered hamburger steak with gravy and onions is our favorite at the moment. It is better than any restaurant I have been to. The stove top cooked pot roast melts in your mouth. The banana pudding was the favorite of a family reunion. I now have to make it and take it to every occasion. It makes a huge pan though so beware. You also no longer have to 'guess' on the amount of flour to use to make gravy. I grew up making buttermilk biscuits and cream gravy. This book has it it all. The pancakes are better than IHOP. I am also buying this book for friends and newlyweds. Oh, just one more thing. This is not a low fat, low calorie book. But who cares? When you want comfort food, you want the good stuff!
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She’s one of America’s fairest and funniest ladies. Actress and screenwriter, director and comedienne, Fannie Flagg is also a most accomplished and high-spirited author. Said Kirkus of her first book, Coming Attractions: “It’s subtitled ‘A wonderful novel’ and that’s exactly what it is.” Here is her second. Get ready, because it’s going to make you laugh (a lot), cry (a little), and care (forever).
What is it? It’s first the story of two women in the 1980s, of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women—of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder.
And as the past unfolds, the present—for Evelyn and for us—will never quite be the same.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, with humor and drama—and with an ending that would fill with smiling tears the Whistle Stop Lake...if they only had a lake....
Customer Reviews:
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.......2007-09-13
I love the movie version. Watch it about once a year. The book fleshes out the beloved characters very well. The book is a keepsake to be re-read often.
A Treasure.......2007-07-26
First off, the title is one of the best ever; and everything about this book lives up to it. Not a story that is reeled out in a straight cast but payed out slowly- under and over stories artfully woven. The character's names, the place, the times, the sounds of the train, the smells of all that fabulous pre-health conscious stuff frying on the grill. Boy oh boy!
The hope of life against the odds. This is one classic book.
I quite liked it!.......2007-07-18
Whenever I see a movie that was originally a book, I always want to read the book. Then i got on amazon and saw how many people were just lovin the book! So i got. And here I am, to make my own rave review.
Although the book jumps around alot, somehow I never got confused or annoyed. It just still fit seamlessly together, ninny telling her story and the rest being filled in. And then it tells the story of Evelyn, who's struggling with depression and her want to die. And then it goes through with her as she suddenly becomes angry, calling herself Towanda.
I'd say that it's definately worth the money.
Better than the movie!.......2007-07-09
Read the book, it's better than the movie and you will be glad you did.
Book.......2007-07-03
I loved it. I watched the movie first and now am reading the book and it's just fantastic!
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Miracle of '48: Harry Truman's Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle -Stops
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Miracle of ’48: Harry Truman’s Major Campaign Speeches and Selected Whistle-stops
is the first published collection of the public addresses Harry Truman made as he crisscrossed the United States from New York City to Los Angeles to Independence, Missouri in 1948. Edited by veteran political journalist Steve Neal, and complemented by a foreword from presidential historian Robert V. Remini, this volume captures the infectious spirit and determination of Truman’s message to the American people.
In an era when policy issues were paramount and televised debates were a thing of the future, Truman boldly stated his case directly to the American people, and they responded. “Senator Barkley and I will win this election and make these Republicans like it,” he declared in his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. “Don’t you forget that. We will do that because they are wrong and we are right.”
From the start of his “non-political” western tour in Crestline, Ohio, through his victory celebration in his hometown of Independence, the plainspoken Truman waged the good fight against all odds, never mixing his words or apologizing for his aggressively honest tactics. In blaming the GOP for a decline in farm prices, he alleged that the 80th Congress had “stuck a pitchfork in the farmer’s backs.” Truman is now regarded as among our greatest presidents and the populist message of his ’48 campaign is still as compelling and relevant today as it was over half a century ago.
“The political history of the United States reveals many unusual developments,” General Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote Truman after the 1948 election, “but certainly at no point does it record a greater accomplishment than yours, that can be traced so clearly to the stark courage and fighting heart of one man.”
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Actress and author of the the beloved novel FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE, Fannie Flagg has long collected recipes from that famed cafe on which the movie was based. Now, due to popular demand, she joyfully shares those recipes along with some wonderful (and hilarious) observations about food and life.
Customer Reviews:
old recipes.......2002-10-16
I recently checkout the cookbook at my public library and upon my surprise were some recipes that my mother used to make. This is a plus for me since my mother is no longer living and we didn't write down some of them. For someone who likes the old time cooking this is a wonderful book.
Luscious,wonderful recipies!.......1997-02-02
I love this cookbook! Here's a sampling of some of the recipes you will find within: Down Home Crab Cakes,Southern Barbecue,Turnip Greens,Cheese Grits,Lane Cake,---this book the is the absolute essence of Southern Cafe food! There is an abundance of recipes-some you wouldn't expect-and three Fried Green Tomato recipes.The Buttermilk Biscuit recipe is the best I have ever used.Lots of wonderful antecdotes on Alabama,Hollywood,the Piggly Wiggly,the movie- plenty of old time photos.A class act.Two words of caution: #1.)Ignore Fannie's Ode to Grapico-DON'T try the stuff! It's grape soda that will make your teeth ache for an hour it's so damned sweet! and #2.)These recipe's are NOT for the "calorically challenged"-but buy it anyway! What a great read
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Are you sure they know there's four of us?"
Ethan can't quite believe that one couple would agree to adopt all four of the Cooper children - Ethan, Alice, Simon, and Will - but Mr. and Mrs. Rush are ready to welcome them to their farm in Nebraska. So the Coopers board the orphan train - along with twenty-one other orphans looking for a new home - and head west.
They find plenty of adventure along the way as railroad cars seem to appear and disappear, they encounter their first prairie dust storm, and Simon continues to talk about a little bitty lady no one else has seen. And with each stop the orphan train makes, more of their friends find new homes.
Though Ethan still isn't sure about what will be waiting for them at the end of the line, he does know that there is one Friend who will be with them, no matter where they go.
Be sure to read all the books in the Orphans' Journey series:
Book One:
Looking for Home
Book Two:
Whistle-stop West
Book Three:
Prairie Homestead
Book Four:
Across the Border
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Customer Reviews:
A Delightful Story of Simple Trust in God.......2000-04-10
A very delightful and touching story portraying the hopes and aspirations of a group of orphans in their search for a happy home. The story reflects the simplicity of children and their trusting nature in the lives of these orphans. The story also exposes the harsh realities of this world through the thoughts, motives and attitudes of the various adults in wanting to adopt them.
What impresses me most is the trust of the children in God in spite of all the difficulties and their readiness to face the challenges in life because they are confident that God will be their helper.
An interesting and easy to read story and one that I did not find easy to put down the moment I started reading because I was curious to know the outcome of the children in the various homes that adopted them. Children will enjoy this book. So will adults.
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Now back in print -- Maritta Wolff's 1941 masterpiece about small-town Midwestern life in post-Depression America
Whistle Stop, published to rave reviews and astonishing commercial success, is the story of the Veech family, an oversize, poverty-stricken tribe trying to make good in a cruel world. Through the course of a punishingly hot summer, we experience life with the six children and three adult Veeches as they bicker, brawl, make up, and provide titillating morsels of scandal for the neighborhood. A work of darkly comic grotesque, replete with shades of Flannery O'Connor, Whistle Stop is also a wrenching and earnest rumination on the tragedy of thwarted love.
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" Now back in print -- Maritta Wolff's 1941 masterpiece about small-town Midwestern life in post-Depression America Whistle Stop, published to rave reviews and astonishing commercial success, is the story of the Veech family, an oversize, poverty-stricken tribe trying to make good in a cruel world. Through the course of a punishingly hot summer, we experience life with the six children and three adult Veeches as they bicker, brawl, make up, and provide titillating morsels of scandal for the neighborhood. A work of darkly comic grotesque, replete with shades of Flannery O'Connor, Whistle Stop is also a wrenching and earnest rumination on the tragedy of thwarted love. "
Customer Reviews:
This book will stop your heart.......2004-01-31
I discovered a lovingly-preserved copy of Whistle Stop in the basement sale of the Boonton Public Library in Boonton, NJ, and frankly, my life has never been the same since. Maritta Wolff wrote this, her masterwork, in college, and it emerged from her pen almost utterly flawless, written with an artless candor perhaps only possible at her unaffected age.
It's the story of a down-at-the heels family in a sleepy farm town in Michigan, and how they endure fate, and how they tempt it. Some are in pain, some are violent, some are ambitious, or selfish, and some have given up. Descriptively, you smell the sun-baked overgrown grass, you hear the creak of dilapidated floorboards, you hear and feel each taunt and jeer, and you feel their love and hate as if it is your own. Everyone is flawed and desperate, but everyone is alive in a way people don't seem to be anymore.
After you invite these characters into your home, they won't ever move out, which is for the best, because each one is a touchstone to a facet of your soul.
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Follow Amanda on another imaginative presidential journey. A fanciful little girl who dreams of being President of the United States, Amanda announces her re-election campaign trip will take place via her dream train.
As she and her puppy, Coolidge, enjoy an electrifying whistle-stop ride to some of the most beautiful sights in America, President Amanda speaks out on behalf of animals.
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Iain Levison can find work but not fulfillment. The frustration of dead-end, deadhead labor induces a kind of pink-slip payback syndrome as the realization sets in that his college degree will gain him little by way of psychic wages on the job. He is adrift in a workaday world where one human is as good as the next and all are expendable. Meaningless promises abound, "like when they were telling us [at commencement that] we were the future of the world, the bright shining blah blah blah."
In ten years, Iain Levison has lived in six states and worked at forty-two jobs, from fish cutter in Alaska to furniture mover in North Carolina, film-set gopher, oil deliveryman, truck driver, crab fisherman . . . He quit thirty of them, got fired from nine, and has difficulty remembering the other three. Whatever could go wrong often did, hilariously.
A Working Stiff's Manifesto makes Nickel and Dimed look like chump change. It is a funny book about the not-so-funny American workplace. The real thing, written not by a high-priced journalist disguised as a counter clerk, or a tenured professor passing as a vagrant, but by a genuine wage-dependent, red-blooded working stiff too "rich" for welfare and too broke to fit a consumer demographic. He works to keep his car running to get back and forth from work. He works to get by and get back to square one for the next day's labors.
Customer Reviews:
Reality Bites * Hysterical = A Great Book.......2007-03-07
I haven't laughed so hard or felt so sympathetic reading a book before. A perfect mix of irony and sarcasm to get the point accross about how tough it is out there without getting sanctimonious. Buy the book - you will not be disappointed.
Tony Robbins he is not... .......2006-07-11
If you're looking for a self-help guide or something bright & shiny to help you feel better about your ambitious climb up the corporate ladder- this isn't it. If you have no sense of humor or you're easily offended by one with a sarcastic bite and a questionable work-ethic, well... look elsewhere. A little like Bukowski minus the degrading sex and alcoholic debauchery, but... hey it's still worth reading.
Like listening to a guy in a bar crack you up about the ironies of his miserable work life, Levison "tells it like it is" and it isn't pretty out there. Although he's probably stretching the truth about the details of some of his experiences (what writer doesn't), he seems to be honest about his attitude and actions toward the working world, if not his own near burnt-out psyche. Along the way he encounters people worse off and more negative than he is, and he humourously illustrates how the will to treat others with basic dignity and fairness can get sucked from anybody in the daily grind of low-wage survival. But, he doesn't just blame "The Man" for a life stuck on the hamster wheel of [...] jobs, and at times he almost seems to come to terms with his own character flaws which continually contribute to his self-fullfilling prophecy of just scraping by.
All in all, this book is a quick, funny read and a dose of harsh reality in a culture that often sugar-coats the many twisted variations of the so-called "American Dream"...
And by the way, although he sure doesn't espouse an "education for education's sake" mentality, now that he is a published author with a few books out, it seems his much lamented English degree has amounted for something. Good for you, Levison.
Is your life easy?.......2006-01-21
I knew the author, having somewhat grown up with him. I found similarities in his life, and my own. I think that his storytelling is fascinating, and I wished for more, but I guess book editors can have their way with first time authors. I think that until you have experienced this kind of life, you will never know or have much understanding of it. How ironic it is that a college graduate would have to endure these kind of day to day hardships, that many would think would only be for the "uneducated". Yes, it doesn't leave you inspired. How often are we told that a book must have a happy ending to it. I think for those who have never known hardship, it is required reading.
Hilarious and True.......2005-11-29
If you've ever been caught in that nether world of "temporary employment" then Iain Levison speaks for you. This book is relatively short (164 pages). It was just right, but I would love to see a sequel.
Wonderfully funny!! Encore, please????.......2005-10-27
I really loved this book. It's one of the few that I felt the need to read multiple times. I find the author, whether he's being serious or funny, to be a riot. His writing style is very light and simple. Just reading about all his different jobs is so interesting and fun - probably because I can relate to never seeming to find the right job. I bought this book two years ago, and I still keep coming back to Amazon hoping to find a new title....hopefully someday.
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