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Rumpus Book ClubBarry Hannah
Author Barry Hannah has died. He was 67.
In honor of his memory A. N. Devers tweeted Hannah’s recipe for Three Bean Soup:
“You start with three kinds of beans: kidney, white (navy) and black-eyed peas. Take a big–real big–pot of water, dump ‘em in, and add some shredded onions. Saute either pork or beef, cut up in little chunks, and dump it in. Bring it to a boil. Add salt mixed with pepper, to taste. Turn up the heat and bring it up again. Add water if needed; dump in a small bag of rice, and bring it up. Boil until it thickens. For extra seasoning, I sometimes add some crab-boil, Tabasco, or whatever’s handy on the shelf. Serve it with French bread and butter. It’s all the nutrition you can stand.”
March 1st, 2010 at 7:37 pm
This recipe is from The Great American Writers’ Cookbook, published by Yoknapatawpha Press in Oxford, Mississippi. Strangely, I was flipping through it when I saw the first news.