{"id":429,"date":"2018-12-31T12:15:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2018-12-31T12:15:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:15:49","slug":"glenn-dromgooles-texas-reads-column-appears-weekly-at-lonestarliterary-com-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

2.7.16\u00a0\u00a0 Folklore book focuses on Texas food stories, recipes<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span>Every year the Texas Folklore Society<\/span> produces an interesting collection of stories, usually around a central theme. This year\u2019s book features Tales of Texas Cooking,<\/span><\/a><\/span> full of good yarns and, of course, plenty of recipes \u2014 more than 120 of them (University of North Texas Press, $34.95 hardcover).<\/p>\n

Frances Brannen Vick, retired director of UNT Press, selected and edited the contributions, grouped by geographical regions \u2014 the Piney Woods, the Cross Timbers, the Rolling Plains, the Edwards Plateau, the Trans-Pecos, and others. Most of the pieces feature a story about food, followed by a few favorite recipes from the writer.<\/p>\n

Contributors include a number of recognizable names from Texas literature, such as Elmer Kelton, John Erickson, Kenneth W. Davis, Robert and Jean Flynn, Leon Hale, Kay Bailey Hutchison, James Ward Lee, Archie McDonald, Joyce Gibson Roach, <\/span>and Jane Roberts Wood.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hale brags about the beef enchiladas he used to devour at the long-gone New York Caf\u00e9 in downtown Bryan \u2014 and provides the recipe.<\/p>\n

Kelton\u2019s piece, first published in 1998, focuses on wife Ann\u2019s Austrian cake called the Linzertorte.<\/p>\n

Davis reflects on the Sweet Potato Pie recipe that has been in his family for several generations.<\/p>\n

Scott Hill Bumgardner,<\/span> current president of the folklore society, stirs up tasty memories with his story about the wonderful meals at his grandmother Mayme \u2019s home in Abilene, especially chicken and dumplings and chocolate pecan pie that was \u201cas we say down South, sinful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if a pie or two during my visit was not enough,\u201d he continues, \u201cshe would whip two or three more together to send off with my parents and me as we headed back to Houston.\u201d Unfortunately, Mayme never shared her recipe for chicken and dumplings, \u201cpossibly believing that if you could not figure it out, then your attempt would not be good anyway,\u201d Bumgardner writes.<\/p>\n

I imagine most families have similar stories to tell about their own experiences growing up with food served with lots of sugar and butter \u2014 and love \u2014 by their grandmothers. My grandmother Mammaw always had a pot of pinto beans on the stove when we would\u00a0 go to visit. Those were the best beans, and I still use her recipe and remember the good times at the farm where there was always plenty of food, kinfolks and laughter.<\/p>\n

Tales of Texas Cooking<\/span> makes for good reading, good memories, and good eating.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> is co-author, with Carlton Stowers, of 101 Essential Texas Books<\/span><\/a><\/span> Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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