![]() ![]() Bragg also makes the case that his great-grandfather Jimmy Jim Bundrum was the best cook in the world - an acid spill of a man who had abandoned his wife and abused children to die and was living in the hills when his son Charlie came to fetch him home in 1924. None of her three sons minded her cooking enough when they were young to absorb the minutiae that made it great.īut his mother is almost more of a Greek chorus, a contemporary commentary, for most of the memoir. The “best cook” of the title is ostensibly Bragg’s mother, Margaret Bundrum, born in 1937, a woman who has worn out more than a dozen electric ranges with her cooking, and whose skill and fierce opinions about food, the author fears, may die with her. He returns to the Bundrums and Braggs in “The Best Cook in the World,” a culinary memoir interspersed with recipes. ![]()
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