![]() ![]() ![]() Bragg grew up in northeastern Alabama, where his mother still lives in “a cedar cabin, which rises, like it grew there, from the ancient rocks, oaks, and scaly-bark trees in the lee of Bean Flat Mountain, in the hilly north of Calhoun County.” “The Best Cook in the World” is about family, and food, and the South, and all the intricate connections among them. And anyone else whose mother is also the best cook in the world knows just how he feels. Wisecracks aside, Bragg’s deep love for his mother, and her cooking, shines throughout the book. When Rick Bragg told his mother that his new book about her would be titled “The Best Cook in the World,” Margaret Bragg protested: “I wasn’t even the best cook that lived on our road.”īragg writes, “I told her we couldn’t call it ‘The Third-Best Cook on Roy Webb Road’ because that just didn’t sing.” ![]()
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