In My Fathers Bakery or Celebrity Cookbook

In My Father's Bakery: A Bronx Memoir

Author: Marvin Korman

This beautifully written remembrance restores to life—in all its color, humor and magic—a vanished New York neighborhood of European Jews, Irish Catholics, and others as it was during the Depression and through World War II. The author unrolls before you prizefights in the Bronx Coliseum, baseball in the original Yankee Stadium and pinochle in the bakery backroom. Yet bread, the staff of life, is at the center of this work.

In an easygoing, novelistic style, Mr. Korman delivers such vivid portraits of bakery regulars that you, too, will feel you are in the bakery, eating devil's food cake and eavesdropping (while pretending to do homework) as scenes of crisis or celebration spill before them.

The author's powerful vignettes focus on individuals: among them the grocer, the baker and the local bookmaker. You will also meet a local politico, a lonely wartime wife, gypsy tinsmiths, and a magician—who is not the only closely observed character who pulls surprises out of his hat.

Marvin Korman is too keen a chronicler to serve up mere nostalgia along with the bakery's recipe for butter cookies, the one with the maraschino cherry in the middle that mother mailed to their boys in the service. Mr. Korman's stories are delivered fresh-baked and warm, with irony enough to assure a memorable bite.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1	Uncle Maxie Strikes Back	15
Chapter 2	Monday Night Fights	25
Chapter 3	Comrade Taft	36
Chapter 4	Fire Sale	49
Chapter 5	Last Rites?	62
Chapter 6	Amelia's Baby	69
Chapter 7	A Love Affair	79
Chapter 8	The Price of Doing Business	90
Chapter 9	Hawk	99
Chapter 10	The Magician	107
Chapter 11	The Bookie's Mistake	119
Chapter 12	The Dancing Gypsies	128
Chapter 13	War Casualties	139
Chapter 14	This Funny Thing Called Love	150
Chapter 15	John's Secret	160
Chapter 16	The Genius	171
Chapter 17	Arnie, Or Is It Armando?	185
Chapter 18	Lil & Phyll	195
	Epilogue	207

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Celebrity Cookbook: Recipes for a Cure

Author: Lisa Ann

The Celebrity Cookbook offers a quick peek into the kitchens of world-famous personalities and renowned chefs with a collection of over 100 donated recipes, photos and autographs. This book takes you on an entertaining journey through celebrity pantries, and at the same time provides funding for a worthy and very important cause.