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Hallelujah! The Welcome Table
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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