Red Rock Press presents "In My Father's Bakery"

IN MY FATHER'S BAKERY
A Bronx Memoir
By Marvin Korman
Hardcover, $22
Only $20 with a free recipe booklet!

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 mothers 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.

Praise for IN MY FATHER'S BAKERY
"I grew up in the Bronx and used to go to a bakery like this. I used to know people like this. And do you want to know something? It was great being with them again."
---Regis Philbin
"Marvin Korman takes his riotous, Giants-loving savvy Bronx family and with enormous skill, makes them universal. He is a Master Baker of a writer."
---Patricia Volk, author of Stuffed
"I loved In My Father's Bakery--particularly Korman's very personal account of the impact that Hank Greenberg had on Jewish kids in the Bronx."
---Lawrence Ritter, author of The Glory of Their Times

About the Author Marvin Korman is the retired vice-president for advertising and promotion of Columbia Pictures, and of NBC Television. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Eleanore. The Kormans are the parents of two grown daughters.

WHEN THE KAISER ROLL WAS KING: Recipes (with Musical Suggestions) By Marvin Korman
$2.75
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Copyright © Arnold Newman

If he knew you were coming (to read his book), he would have baked you a cake. But because that's not possible, author Marvin Korman has included some of the best recipes from his father's bakery, along with those for some special family dishes mentioned in In My Father's Bakery, in this booklet. All recipes have been adapted for home use.
Since, Mr. Korman loves music almost as much as he loves to bake, he has included suggestions of songs - recorded by great vocalists of the bakery's era--for you to listen to, as your bread rises. When the Kaiser Roll Was King is a unique treasury of recipes that will be sent to you free only when you order In My Father's Bakery directly from Red Rock Press.
Table of Contents
Uncle Menashe's Magic Challah
Sweet Onion Rolls
Kaiser Rolls
Variation on My Father's Health Bread
If It's Whole-Wheat Bread, It Must Be Wednesday
Albert's Devil's Food Cake
Amelia Billingsley's Chocolate Pudding
Home-front Butter Cookie
Brisket of Beef
Presumably, My Mother's Gefilte Fish

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