Pulitzer Prize Winner Rick Bragg Coming to Woodstock

Rick Bragg is back with a brand new book, The Best Cook in the World - Tales from My Momma's Table (Knopf, Penguin Random House). Bragg will visit North Georgia when he appears at independent bookstore, FoxTale Book Shoppe, on Thursday, May 10, 7:00PM. This will be Bragg's fourth visit to the Downtown Woodstock indie book shoppe.

From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother. Including seventy-four mouthwatering Bragg family recipes for classic southern dishes passed down through generations.

Margaret Bragg does not own a single cookbook. She measures in "dabs" and "smidgens" and "tads" and "you know, hon, just some." She cannot be pinned down on how long to bake corn bread ("about 15 to 20 minutes, depending on the mysteries of your oven"). Her notion of farm-to-table is a flatbed truck. But she can tell you the secrets to perfect mashed potatoes, corn pudding, redeye gravy, pinto beans and hambone, stewed cabbage, short ribs, chicken and dressing, biscuits and butter rolls. Many of her recipes, recorded here for the first time, pre-date the Civil War, handed down skillet by skillet, from one generation of Braggs to the next. In The Best Cook in the World, Rick Bragg finally preserves his heritage by telling the stories that framed his mother's cooking and education, from childhood into old age. Because good food always has a good story, and a recipe, writes Bragg, is a story like anything else.

FoxTale co-owner Karen Schwettman says, "Rick is not only my favorite, but so many of our customer's favorite too. I cannot wait to welcome him back to FoxTale. I know y'all are going to love this new book so much." Schwettman shared this is a ticketed event and more information can be found on FoxTale's website, their Facebook or by calling the store at 770-516-9989.