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Start by marking Moonshine, Monster Catfish And Other Southern Comforts as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. Burkhard Bilger's beautifully written, wonderfully funny and movingly nostalgic book explores the surviving (and often dying) folk traditions of the American South, from the eating of squirrel brains in Kentucky, cock-fighting in Oklahoma, frog-ranching in Georgia and coon-hunting all over, to the noodling for flatheads (fishing for catfish, using your fingers as bait and Burkhard Bilger's beautifully written

In these masterfully crafted essays, Burkhard Bilger explores the history and practice of eight such clandestine worlds

In these masterfully crafted essays, Burkhard Bilger explores the history and practice of eight such clandestine worlds. Like John McPhee and Ian Frazier, he introduces us to people whose spirit of individualism keeps traditions alive, from a fifty-something female coon hunter who spends 340 nights a year in the woods to a visionary frog farmer and a man whose arms are scarred by the eighty-pound catfish he catches by hand.

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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Burkhard Bilger's beautifully written, wonderfully funny and movingly nostalgic book explores the surviving (and often dying) folk traditions of the American South. His book is subtitled Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts. You wouldn't want to miss a one of 'e. The Toronto Star "A five-star, Bill Bryson-style exploration of the habits, customs, traditions and often-bizarre obsessions of the American South" Arena "Bilger never judges the roughnecks who show him the hidden crafts of the Old South but vividly builds up a touching picture of this dying breed" The List.

Bilger is an ace at capturing the telling moment, delivered in the sometimes dissonant music of words: "When he wasn't fighting chickens, Demoruelle, worked in a drug rehab center, and he knew all about forbidden pleasure. Be careful,' he told me, only half-joking. If you get into this thing, you might really like it.

Burkhard Bilger published his first piece in The New Yorker in 2000 and became a staff writer the following year. In 2000, he published Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts, which was a finalist for the PEN /Martha Albrand Award. His work has been anthologized three times in Best American Science and Nature Writing, twice in Best American Sports Writing, and once each in Best Food Writing, Best Technology Writing, and Best American Science Writing. Bilger is a Branford Fellow at Yale University. He is at work on a book about his grandfather’s experience in wartime Alsace. Annals of Gastronomy.

Author : Bilger, Burkhard. This book is also a celebration of the survival of local folk culture in the era of the global triumph of Nike, Barbie and Coca Cola. Explores the surviving (and often dying) folk traditions of the American South, from the eating of squirrel brains in Kentucky, and coon hunting all over, to the noodling for flatheads of the title. Author: Bilger, Burkhard.

Noodling for Flatheads. Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts

Noodling for Flatheads. Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts. Burkhard Bilger vividly captures a world that lies outside the familiar images of life in the United States in the twenty-first century in eight superbly crafted essays about little-known corners of the South. It is a world in which grown men catch catfish with their bare hands, crowds of people cheer on chickens as they fight to the death, and a woman moves into a trailer home when her house burns down just so she can continue hunting 350 nights a year.

Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Com. by Burkhard Bilger. In these masterfully crafted essays, Burkhard Bilger explores the history and practice of eight such clandestine worlds.

Noodling for Flatheads : Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts. Bilger shows that unique southern traditions, including those squirrel brains, are still around and thriving

Noodling for Flatheads : Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts.

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