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Article: Q&A | Bonny Wolf; It All Began With A Doll on a Cake
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- The Washington Post
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- December 20, 2006
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Listeners of NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday" know the voice well:
For three years, Bonny Wolf has been regaling them with monthly
essays about food and the ways it connects us to our families,
friends, even ancestors we never knew. In her new book, "Talking
With My Mouth Full: Crab Cakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen
Stories" (St. Martin's Press, November 2006), Wolf digs with gusto
into topics such as Jell-O, real Texas chili, state fair meat-on-a-
stick, the glories of popovers and the biological impulses behind
comfort food.
Wolf, 56, grew up in Minnesota and has been a newspaper and
magazine reporter and editor in New Jersey, Texas and Washington.
She taught journalism at Texas A&M ...