Hallelujah! The Welcome Table

Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories With Recipes by Maya Angelou is a wonderful cooking memoir. From growing up in Stamps, Arkansas to cooking for M.F.K Fisher and Oprah Winfrey, Maya has a story to tell with delicious recipes included. There are many moving stories like “The Assurance of Caramel Cake” and “Sweet Southern Memories”. Some are hilarious, like “Pie Fishing” and “Black Iron Pot Roast”. I made a couple of her recipes. Her mixed salad with feta and golden raisins was excellent (lots of garlic!) Making her banana pudding recipe made me understand the story “Good Banana, Bad Timing” even more (its not your average banana pudding). Too bad I have to give this book to another patron who has a hold on it.

A staff pick by: Lynn

Hitch

Hitch by Jeanette Ingold.  Moss Trawnley is 17, homeless, jobless, and in line at the soup kitchen with everyone else he knows when he hears about President Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps. He signs up for six months and finds his life irrevocably changed, from the hot food on the table and the sheets on the beds to the new responsibilities he earns and the self-control he learns. An excellent time machine into the Great Depression, and a wonderful look at a teenager becoming an adult.    

Reviewed by:  Kathy