Recipes for Redemption

2016 International Book Award Finalist in Cookbooks: International
2016 Best book Award Finalist in Cookbooks: International

Recipes for Redemption: A Companion Cookbook for A Cup of Redemption provides the promised recipes—both French and American—culled from the pages, the times, and the regional influences found in the historical novel A Cup of Redemption. Told through the voices of the three main characters—Marcelle, Sophie and Kate—the recipes are carefully taught in the way these women learned them: at the knees of their mothers or grandmothers. Whether “cuisine pauvre” (peasant cooking), “war food” from WWII, American fare, or simply a family favorite, each recipe is carefully described and footnoted with interesting, often amusing culinary notes. Flavored with witty repartee and slathered with common sense, this cookbook is filled with heart, soul, humor, and delectable delight.

Author: Carole Bumpus

Publication Date: August 18, 2015

Categories: Award-Winning, Fall 2015, Non-fiction

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2016 International Book Award Finalist in Cookbooks: International
2016 Best book Award Finalist in Cookbooks: International

“A pastiche of excerpts from Bumpus’s own experiences traveling through France and recipes and advice adapted from some of her favorite French cookbooks . . . An interesting survey of traditional regional French cooking.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“Recipes for Redemption is author Carole Bumpus’s cookbook companion to her novel A Cup of Redemption. They say, ‘Give the people what they want.’ Bumpus has done so, supplying the recipes to the mouthwatering dishes that take center stage in her cross-France family drama.”
—San Francisco Book Review

About the Author

Carole Bumpus, a retired family therapist, writes Savoring the Olde Ways, a food/travel blog taken from excerpts of her interviews with French and Italian families, and has been published in both the US and France for her articles on food. While researching A Cup of Redemption, she traveled as a “war correspondent” with US World War II veterans with the 3rd Infantry Division for the 60th anniversary of the Allies landing on the Southern Beaches of France and sent daily reports, blogs, and photos of the massive receptions held in the veterans’ honor in forty of the French villages they liberated. She will be repeating this trip in August 2014. Bumpus has been published in three short-story anthologies: Fault Zone: Words from the Edge, Fault Zone: Stepping up to the Edge, and Fault Zone: Over the Edge. A Cup of Redemption is her first historical novel, and is loosely based on the gripping, true-life excavation of an elderly French woman’s life and the honoring of the final request to find a father she never knew.

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