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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (April 5, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060984422
  • ASIN: B000C4T16I
  • Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.6 x 8 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsThis one's a keeper
By Wendy A. Kidd on March 10, 2000
Format: Hardcover
I READ a lot of cookbooks, but BUY very few. This is one of the few that I can't live without. The recipes are wonderful (I can smell a Lemon Cake from this book cooling downstairs as I write this) and the stories are just as juicy and delicious.
It's rare to read a cookbook and wish you knew the author and her family, but that's how I felt after savoring this book. As a Yankee transplanted to South Carolina, I am just now learning the pleasures of sweet tea, church bake sales and fried chicken. This book has definitely earned a place of honor in my kitchen next to James Villas' "My Mother's Southern Kitchen". It's a keeper.
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4.0 out of 5 starsI, too, was consumed
By Dianna Setterfield on October 2, 2000
Format: Hardcover
I will admit: I thought this was going to be another outrageously funny southern novel by Michael Lee West. I had read two of her books previously and totally devoured them. So naturally I had to read everything she had in print. Well, imagine my surprise when I discovered a cookbook in my hands. I LOVED this book...and I HATE to cook! As a matter of fact, my menus consist of nothing more than boxed macaroni and cheese and different varieties of Hamburger Helper. And you know what else? I didn't know you were supposed to "season" a cast-iron skillet. I learned a lot of things reading this book, and it has even inspired me to cook something REAL. Not only that, but Michael Lee West has real-life eccentric characters--her relatives--that keep this book moving along. I would just love to have an Aunt Dell in my family! I highly recommend this book to everyone who enjoys a good southern novel. Even to those who don't cook....like me!
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5.0 out of 5 starsDo you love to cook and to read? This one's for you!
By Sallie Stephens on October 3, 2000
Format: Paperback
As an avid reader (especially of cookbooks!, a "Consuming Passion" for cooking (especially all things southern) and a fan of Michael Lee West, I picked up this book with great anticipation. And I was not disappointed. Having lived in the South for several years, I have come to love to read about Southern culture: it's idiosynchrosies, dialect, etc. And gosh darn it, ya just gotta love that food! This book combines the best of what I love: food and reading! Ms. West has a great way of making one's mouth water, while at the same time filling the reader full of southern charm and wit. And best of all, she includes recipes! From barbeque to gumbo, Lemon Chess Pie to Coconut cake, this book is full of true 'southern' recipes, and Ms. West's family stories behind them. This is the kind of book I like to read over and over again, and I've made several of the recipes to boot (and have not been disappointed with the results). If you love the South, food, humor and Michael Lee West's other books, you'll love this one as well.
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5.0 out of 5 starsI consumed it in one sitting!
By Heidi L. Marshall on October 8, 2001
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This memoir made me laugh out loud, and the recipes are terrific too. I totally enjoyed reading about Aunt Tempe, Uncle Bun, and Aunt Dell's exploits. I totally enjoyed eating the shrimp etoufee that I made after reading this book. Miss Johnnie's macaroni and cheese was really good too. This book is both a unique culinary and reading experience at the same time. I have read all of Michael Lee West's books, and really loved them, but this one made me wish that I had grown up in the south, just as the author had. But, I can still enjoy southern cooking, and this book has been added as a permanent fixture on my cookbook shelf. Thank you Ms. West for sharing your recipes with this particular Northerner. My husband thanks you too.
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4.0 out of 5 starstalented novelist delivers delectable, engaging memoir
By Bruce J. Wasser on June 9, 2003
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The author of three marvelous books about eccentric and defiant Southern women, Michael Lee West has concocted a winning recipe of down-home cooking and family history in a charming memoir/cookbook, "Consuming Passions." At peace with her love of food and proud of her women-centered family, West promotes food as the sustenance of all that is worthwhile in life. Her anecdotal style sparkles and her recipes are not only provocative, but understandable, even for amateur Yankee cooks and other such timid kitchen souls.
The members of West's family take larger-than-life shape in this memoir, and the author is unabashedly proud, both of their iconoclastic character and their abilities in the kitchen. West does provide a modest warning: her "Southern tales are like intricate recipes -- part myth, part truth, and part lies." Her mother's insistence on an okra-free gumbo results in her swinging from a chandelier in protest. Her aunt Dell's oversized appetite takes form in her collection of hairless cats, antiques and skewed instructions on food preparation. Even her husband's attempt to raise bees falters when he mistakenly wears dark-colored socks. In the midst of the author's affectionate observations of family eccentricities is her unflagging commitment to a joyous life. Perhaps the most beautiful aspect of the numerous invitations to create in the kitchen is her acceptance of imperfection and failure. West never stops trying, never stops of her sense of adventure, never ceases loving food and family.
When not enmeshed in rhapsodizing about food, West knows how to create food-based metaphor. Disdaining gossip as a "main course," she suggests that it "was more like an enticing appetizer, or a rich, sinful dessert.Read more ›
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Rare combinations of good narrative, entertaining stories, and delicious recipes. I love this book.

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Michael Lee West is a great southern writer! If you enjoy Fannie Flagg or Mary Kay Andrews' style of writing you'll enjoy this. Fun book!

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I read, SHE FLEW THE COOP, by Michael West and enjoyed it-- especially some of the recipes given, so I decided to read some of her other novels that weren't available at the local... Read more

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