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Also by Maya Angelou:

Mom & Me & Mom, April 2013
Hardcover
Great Food, All Day Long, December 2010
Hardcover
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, March 2010
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, May 2009
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Letter To My Daughter, October 2008
Hardcover
Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, October 2007
Paperback
Poetry for Young People, August 2007
Hardcover
Celebrations, November 2006
Hardcover
Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me, April 2006
Hardcover
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem, December 2005
Hardcover
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou, September 1994
Hardcover / e-Book

HALLELUJAH! THE WELCOME TABLE
By: Maya Angelou

A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes

Random House Trade Paperbacks
October 2007
On Sale: October 9, 2007
240 pages
ISBN: 0812974859
EAN: 9780812974850
Paperback
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Throughout Maya Angelou’s life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her world travels as a bestselling writer, good food has played a central role. Preparing and enjoying homemade meals provides a sense of purpose and calm, accomplishment and connection. Now in Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, Angelou shares memories pithy and poignant–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 to speak–and her mother baked a delicious maple cake to brighten her spirits. She gives us her recipe for short ribs along with a story about a job she had as a cook at a Creole restaurant (never mind that she didn’t know how to cook and had no idea what Creole food might entail). There was the time in London when she attended a wretched dinner party full of wretched people; but all wasn’t lost–she did experience her initial taste of a savory onion tart. She recounts her very first night in her new 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 created Chicken Drunkard Style. And then there was the hearty brunch Angelou made for a homesick Southerner, a meal that earned her both a job offer and a prophetic compliment: “If you can write half as good as you can cook, you are going to be famous.”

Maya Angelou is renowned in her wide and generous circle of friends as a marvelous chef. Her kitchen is a social center. From fried meat pies, chicken livers, and beef Wellington to caramel cake, bread pudding, and chocolate éclairs, the one hundred-plus recipes included 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 things Angelou loves best: writing and cooking.

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Martha Stewart - November 2, 2007