Beyond the Little Brauhaus: From the Family Tree to the Kitchen Table is a cooking pot full of warm family recipes and intimate stories suitable as formal dining room fare or kitchen table conversations. In this book, food is the tie that weaves through family history, holding generations together with the traditions and memories it evokes. Readers will enjoy retracing the roots of one family's journey to the new world while remembering their own family’s hidden and treasured recipes from days gone by.
Josef Bastian is Midwest author and poet whose sense of humor, depth of spirit and reflective imagination resonate within his poetry and prose. He is a fresh, new voice from middle America, in the footsteps of Carl Sandburg and Garrison Keillor.
Mr. Bastian currently lives in the Metropolitan Detroit area.
