Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family Audiobook

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• “Craving a beach read with a bite? Kathleen Flinn’s new memoir, Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good, chronicles her Midwestern family’s culinary adventures, starting with a move cross-country to run her uncle’s pizzeria. There are plenty of hilarious missteps (like a maybe-don’t-try-this-at-home experience raising chickens), but food is a blissful constant, even in the craziest of times. And the book is filled with recipes—Grandpa’s Mich-Mex chili, Mom’s cinnamon rolls—so you can create some memorable family meals of your own.”

  — Redbook

• “Flinn shares uplifting stories of the recipes that shaped her life, from her Swedish grandmother’s pancakes to her mom’s chicken and biscuits.”

  — More

• “True to its lighthearted title, the book possesses a friendly, intimate feel, complete with memorable family characters including a bootlegger-cook granddad and a kitchen-wizard grandmother. Flinn herself is a Le Cordon Bleu graduate, but her tasty recipes here possess distinctive Swedish and Midwestern flavors.”

  — Barnes&Noble.com, editorial review

• “A memoir with lots of eating, road trips, and family history, this combination platter will fill you up.” 

  — Campus Circle

• “Surrounded by a warm, extended family, Flinn’s childhood sounds like a wonderful way to grow up, and her additions of mouthwatering Michigan recipes adds even more flavor to her memoir.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Flinn affectionately recalls her family and growing up in the counties surrounding Flint, Michigan, in the days before America’s mighty auto industry collapsed…As she recounts the years of her youth, Flinn summons up memories of family dinners and of foods the older women of her extended family cooked so carefully and lovingly…Recipes for Flinn’s family’s favorite feasts appear throughout the text, most of them readily replicated, yet carefully detailed, even to the level of creating specific spice mixtures.”

  — Booklist

• “An award-winning nonfiction writer and journalist’s recipe-packed memoir of her Midwestern childhood…A warm, quietly poignant treat.”

  — Kirkus Reviews