Ernest matthew mickler biography of michael
When Ernest “Ernie” Matthew Mickler's book White Trash Cooking appeared in , it became an instant hit.
Ernie was born on August 23, , in Palm Valley, Florida....
Ernest “Ernie” Matthew Mickler’s White Trash Cooking was published in the spring of 1986. The book—a 160-page anthology of Southern recipes, stories and photographs—was the result of Mickler’s travels around the South and his upbringing in Palm Valley, a place he described as “a cabbage-palm swamp near St.
Augustine.”
According to his dear friend Petie Pickette, that’s where “Ernie learned cooking at his mama’s knee.”
Born the youngest of four boys in 1940, Mickler grew up next to the former County Road 210 bridge, sandwiched between Papa George’s Fish Camp and the Anchorage Restaurant.
Mickler, a gay Southerner, liked to say, “White Trash” was separated from “white trash” by pride and manners, making a distinction between uppercase and lowercase versions of the epithet.
Mickler earned a bachelor’s degree from Jacksonville University before moving to California to earn a master’s from Mills College.
After that, he moved to Key West, where he said he met “all of t
