Noodling for Flatheads - Burkhard Bilger

What do Squirrel Brains taste like, and what's the best way to prepare them? How can I improve my rolley-holing technique or indulge in a spot of cooning? What's the best time to go noodling - and is it really for me? If you've ever asked these questions (and haven't we all at some point?), Buckhard Bilger's Noodling for Catfish is a good place to start. Possibly the only place outside the southern states of America. For the stories contained in this fine collection are not those that make up the everyday image of the US, the one projected out across the world in all its pervasive, persuasive glory. Just as England is as well defining by cheese-rolling and summer ...  Read the complete review

Americans are really not like us; and those Americans from the Southern states are entirely different again. Not in a bad way though...just different. Different in the way that they spend their days engaged in curious activities they consider normal but which to us Brits are slightly odd to say the least. In "Noodling for Flatheads", Burkhard Bilger presents an assortment of tales of these curious Southern folk from frog farmers to catfish catchers, taking in moonshine makers and squirrel hunters along the way. The concept is similar to Bill Bryson's books in which the author points out some the idiosyncracies of American life with humour and not a ...  Read the complete review