000			01821cam a2200157ua 4500
022			_a9780143063315
082			_a823.914 _bMUL/M
100			_aMuller, Carl
245	1	0	_aMaudiegirl and the von bloss kitchen
260			_aNew Delhi _bPenguin Books _c2009
300			_a287p.
520			_aNobody—and the whole of Boteju Land agreed—could cook like Maudiegirl. She wielded a wizard’s wand not only in the kitchen but also over domestic problems, however large in magnitude; from predicting the sex of an unborn child to knowing more than a dozen ways to cook eels; from cutting a goat in the right way to setting failing marriages straight; from nursing the ailing to health to keeping the best kitchen, Maudiegirl had a solution to every little problem. Her home was her castle and the kitchen her domain. In the fourth serving of his Burgher chronicles, Carl Muller reverts to his favorites family, the von Blosses of his first ‘Burgher’ book The Jam Fruit Tree. A hungry family and a wonderful cook, a kind paedophile, a cantankerous mother-in-law, a disloyal husband, good-for-nothing uncles, prudish Pentecostals, Dunnyboy’s exhibitionism, Sonnaboy’s show-of-strength—the author captures the hallmarks of the von Blosses’ days and ways in his quintessentially irreverent, witty and heart-warming style. Grandmama’s Kitchen features many of Maudiegirl’s famous recipes making the book a treat not only for Muller fans but also for the senses ‘(Muller) tells his tale with a gentle humor often bordering on tenderness, but couched in the vigorous rugged localese. Almost immediately we find ourselves empathizing with Muller's roistering band that sins and prays with equal zest.’ —Business Standard
650	0		_aSreelankan literature
650	0		_aMuller, Carl, 1935-2019
942			_cBK
999			_c23088 _d23088