Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins A Memoir with Recipes

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In this delicious memoir, Molly Ivins's long-time friend and fellow cook Ellen Sweets offers an intimate, fascinating portrait of the private Molly behind the "professional Texan" through stories of the fabulous meals she prepared for friends and family, along with thirty-five recipes. Foreword by Lou DuboseAcknowledgments1. Meeting Molly2. Dining In, Dining Out3. Who, Me? No Way!4. Meeting Multiple Mollies5. The Molly Too Few Knew6. Are You Feeling Chili?7. Julia Child Meets Chicken-fried Steak8. Mise en Place9. Food in the 'Hood10. Vive la France!11. Gumbo Daze12. We Get By with a Little Help from Our Friends13. Wine, Women, and Song14. Steel Magnolias, Texas Style15. Dinner--A Family Affair16. Managing Molly17. Everything Is Relative(s)18. Westward Ho, Ho, Ho19. Le Petit Dejeuner20. Home Cookin'21. Food Stamps and Fun on the Dole22. Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler, Y'all23. The Minnesota Dead Guy24. You Gonna Eat That?25. Thank God It's Friday26. The Great Leonard Pitts-less Dinner27. Plans? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Plans28. . . . and a Partridge in a Bean Stew29. Bienvenidos a Tejas, Comrades30. Oeufs a la Neige31. Table That Emotion32. The Observer's Observant Observer33. Salmon on the Fly34. Burnt Offerings35. Dinner and the Dancing Tampon36. Biscuits, Anyone?37. Without Hope, All Is Lost38. Let's Diversify This Popsicle Stand39. Talking Turkey40. Bacon Has Calories?41. Colorado Adopts Molly42. The Last River Run43. The Beginning of the End44. Adieu and AdiosEpilogue: Gentle Chicken SoupIndex of RecipesGeneral Index