The Ungarnished Truth
A Cooking Contest Memoir
$47.47
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2009
Summary
A woman, a chicken dinner, a million dollars-and a romp through the heartland of America’s competitive cooking culture.When Ellie Mathews entered her Salsa Couscous Chicken in the venerable Pillsbury Bake-Off, she never imagined she’d win the grand prize. Immediately after Alex Trebek announced that her dish had won a million dollars, she was thrown into the limelight. Booked with Oprah and Rosie-even photographed for the New York Times in a vest made of ostrich feathers-she instantly became the reigning queen of chickendom, the Pillsbury “It Girl” of the moment.With a dash of self-deprecating humor and a pinch of biting social commentary, Ellie takes readers on her roller coaster ride to the top of the food chain as the Pillsbury prizewinner. As a cooking contest insider, she goes behind the counter and beyond the aprons and oven mitts to reveal a fascinating slice of Americana.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780425225783 |
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| ISBN-10: | 042522578X |
| Author: | Ellie Mathews |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 263g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 140mm x 208mm |
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Critics Review
A page-turner.
“A page-turner.”
-Seattle Post- Intelligencer
“Enthusiastic and sharp.”
-Kirkus Reviews
“With graceful writing, Mathews takes us behind the scenes at the Bake-Off.”
-Minneapolis Star Tribune
Ellie Mathews
Ellie Mathews has been entertaining-and winning-cooking competitions off and on for fifteen years. She is also a short-story writer and the author of a prize-winning novel for young readers, “The Linden Tree,” and a nonfiction book based on her grandfather’s 1913 journey to Antarctica, “Ambassador to the Penguins,”
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