Way Back in the Country Cookbook: Recipes from Six Generations of East Texas Farm Cooking and the Stories behind Them

John Henderson, The Paris (Texas) News, Dec. 12, 2002
"(These) short stories about Kay Moore's family and some family recipes are a perfect mix, when read together."


Book Description
This book is the story of the author's family through six generations of life in rural East Texas. The antics of real-life characters, The Three Red-Haired Miller Girls, are woven around a fresh, eclectic recipe collection designed to inspire readers to not only prepare these mouth-watering dishes from farm-rich Delta County, Texas, but also to preserve a few from their own family's lore.


About the Author
Kay Wheeler Moore has written and spoken widely on the subject of relationships and family life. She is the author of When the Heart Soars Free, a book of Christian fiction, and Gathering the Missing Pieces in an Adopted Life, based on her Houston Chronicle newspaper series that was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She has also been a newspaper city editor and a reporter for UPI.


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Way Back in the Country, in the days of yesteryear, the biggest events around were two-week-long outdoor revivals and box suppers, where the most creative dinner pails took the prize-when food was always a key link in a family's sweet communion. In farm-rich Delta County, Texas, you'll still hear folks speak of the Three Red-Haired Miller Girls, who grew up in those bygone times and whose family remains legendary for its plentiful, inventive cooking. Enter the world of the Miller Girls and their farm kin, as their antics are woven around this fresh, eclectic recipe collection that will make your mouth water as you read. The mishaps and victories of the six generations that encompass these real-life characters will have you laughing, crying, and eager to cook their way-and perhaps to preserve a few recipes of your own. Written in the "Way Back" spirit of James C. Hefley and "Ozark Monk" Hefley, who popularized Hannibal's other "Way Back" books.


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