corn bread

They form a protective community — a “circumstantial family,” as Vuong has referred to them — in which they converge as low-paid workers at a restaurant chain specializing in chicken and a corn bread recipe that produces “golden, palm sized mounds crusted with sugar.”

Lamont’s stomach grumbled unpleasantly as he tore into his corn bread.

She has a heavy hand for pastry, but she bakes a passable corn bread.

But now it was time to feed Lamont his lunch of corn bread crumbled into a thimble of milk.

Releasing a heavy sigh, I slathered butter all over a piece of warm corn bread.