Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes-Quality Guarantee

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Throughout Maya Angelou’s life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her worldtravels as a bestselling writer, good food has played a central role. Preparing andenjoying homemade meals provides a sense of purpose and calm, accomplishment andconnection. Now in Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, Angelou shares memories pithy andpoignant—and the recipes that helped to make them both indelible and irreplaceable.

Angelou tells us about the time she was expelled from school for being afraid tospeak—and her mother baked a delicious maple cake to brighten her spirits. She givesus her recipe for short ribs along with a story about a job she had as a cook ata Creole restaurant (never mind that she didn’t know how to cook and had no ideawhat Creole food might entail). There was the time in London when she attended awretched dinner party full of wretched people; but all wasn’t lost—she did experienceher initial taste of a savory onion tart. She recounts her very first night in hernew home in Sonoma, California, when she invited M. F. K. Fisher over for cassoulet,and the evening Deca Mitford roasted a chicken when she was beyond tipsy—and createdChicken Drunkard Style. And then there was the hearty brunch Angelou made for a homesickSoutherner, a meal that earned her both a job offer and a prophetic compliment: “Ifyou can write half as good as you can cook, you are going to be famous.”

Maya Angelouis renowned in her wide and generous circle of friends as a marvelous chef. Her kitchenis a social center. From fried meat pies, chicken livers, and beef Wellington tocaramel cake, bread pudding, and chocolate éclairs, the one hundred-plus recipesincluded here are all tried and true, and come from Angelou’s heart and her home.Hallelujah! The Welcome Table is a stunning collaboration between the two thingsAngelou loves best: writing and cooking.