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D ecem ber 15, 2010
In words and food, Maya
Angelou reflects on holidays
(AP) — For Maya Angelou, the holidays
bring family and friends to the table to eat, to
laugh, and to one-up each other.
"This is a time when people get to 'show out,'
as my grandmother used to say," says Angelou,
poet, memoirist and civil rights icon. "Moe is
going to try to out cook Joe. It becomes amus
ing and delightful."
Angelou, whose second cookbook, "Great
Food, All Day Long" (Random House, 2010),
features holiday-worthy dishes such as crown
roast and prime rib, helped a generation under
stand why caged birds sing. But what about
how to make prefect veal chops?
"I'm a cook, a serious cook," she says. "I
plan meals not only for their nutritional value
but for their beauty. I plan them around who's
going to eat them and when. It's ceremonial, for
jubilation or commiserating over something."
Which makes Angelou's cooking very much
like her writing. The 82-year-old Pulitzer winner
approaches the kitchen with the same respect
for ingredients that she gives her words.
"You have to examine and be familiar with
every element," she says. "So you should
know a red pepper, what it will do in a skillet
with a tablespoon of olive oil, how it will look.
How if you give more heat what will happen to
it. You know the materials well."
Despite a fractured childhood shuttling be
tween the families of her estranged parents,
Angelou learned to cook much the way every
one wishes — at her grandmother's knee.
"She would say Now sit down and watch
me.'" Angelou says. "I loved her so much that
I followed her around. People would say, 'You
got your shadow with you again.' I watched her
carefully."
When Angelou lived with her mother as a
teenager, she watched again, learning short
cuts like using a gas stove and making shortcake
with store-bought cake, luxuries her grand
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mother in rural Arkansas didn't have.
"My grandmother didn't know anything about that,"
says Angelou, who was usually put in charge of the
scrubbing and chopping of vegetables. "I learned
both techniques."
Cooking can be a gateway to creativity of all kinds,
Angelou says, if you pay careful attention to the craft.
"I ask folks to read poetry, to read it aloud, so they can
hear the music, the melody of it," she says. "I would
encourage a person who wants to cook to buy cook
books."
Angelou estimates her own cookbook collection at
somewhere around 300 volumes.
And at this time of year, she says, cooking for others
takes on a deeper meaning. "When a person cooks for
me, I like to think of the cooking itself as a gift," she
continued
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