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Cooking Texas Style - Traditional Recipes from the Lone Star State - cover

Cooking Texas Style - Traditional Recipes from the Lone Star State

Candy Wagner, Sandra Marquez

Publisher: University of Texas Press

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Summary

The best source of authentic recipes for the traditional comfort foods of Texas.Just remembering the crispy fried chicken and luscious peach cobblers a grandmother or aunt used to make can set your mouth watering. And since remembering is no substitute for eating, cooks across the country have turned to Cooking Texas Style to find recipes for the comfort foods we love best. Thirty years after its first publication, popular acclaim has made this collection of favorite family recipes the standard source for traditional Texas cooking.Here are over three hundred tasty recipes from the kitchens of Candy Wagner and Sandra Marquez. You’ll find classic Texas dishes such as chicken-fried steak, barbecue, chili, guacamole, and cornbread hot with jalapeños, as well as novel, exciting ways to prepare old favorites such as Tortilla Soup, Fajitas, and Chicken and Dumplings. Organized for easy reference, all the recipes are clearly explained, simple to prepare, and simply delicious. Cooking Texas Style is an invaluable addition to the kitchen bookshelf of anyone interested in cooking—and eating—Texas style.“By far the best . . . Authentic book about regional cooking in Texas I have seen.” —M. F. K. Fisher “The best way to describe it is simply to say, try it, because you’ll find all sorts of riches. This is an imaginative concept, extremely well realized.” —Southwest Review
Available since: 02/01/2013.
Print length: 272 pages.

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