Cowboys and Cookouts: A Taste of the Old West - Hardcover

Esson, Lewis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0764156322 ISBN 13: 9780764156328

Publisher: B E S Pub Co, 2003

Synopsis

Here is a collection of pure fun—a book of beautiful black-and-white photographs, illustrations, old campfire sayings, songs, and even recipes that capture the romance of the fabled American Wild West. Readers who enjoy outdoor cookouts will relish this anthology’s recipe for cowboy-style pork and beans, whether they prepare it over a campfire or on the kitchen range. A more ambitious recipe for red hot barbecue ribs comes with recommendations for serving with corn-on-the-cob, cornbread, and potato salad. The illustrations range from the nostalgic to the humorous. Typical is a photo of two cowboys on horseback who have nearly disappeared into the distance. The caption is a favorite cowboy’s maxim: “If you’re ridin’ ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it’s still there.” Approximately 60 photos.

About this title

About the Author

After beginning his career working for a well-known publishing company in New York, Scottish-born Lewis Esson is now based in London, where he specialises in writing and editing cookery books, and is a member of the Guild of Food Writers. In his capacity as a writer, he has been very successful with the books: Mouthwatering Mediterranean, Quick Cuisine (which was re-released in paperback as The Quick Cook) and Fast Food for Friends, co-written with Henrietta Green and Marie-Pierre Moine. Lewis acts as a regular contributor to the BBC Good Food Magazine and has contributed to several of their spin-off books, including Food That’ s Good For You, Good Food for Friends and Good Fresh Food Fast. He was also a contributing editor on The Good Cook’s Encyclopaedia and the British edition of Larousse Pratique.

Lewis has worked as project-manager, editor and ghostwriter on many high profile and award-winning cookery projects, including titles by Henrietta Green, Anne Willan, Antonio Carluccio, Marilyn Grenville, Raymond Blanc and Gary Rhodes. Projects that he has managed have won the Glenfiddich award, the James Beard award and the Andre Simon award, and many others have received nominations.

From Publishers Weekly

Although the recipes in this fun little primer on campfire cooking won't sustain any serious back-to-nature types (where, for example, would you find Worcestershire sauce in the wilderness?), its considerable charm stems from Esson's efforts to retain for contemporary cooks the 19th-century culinary techniques utilized on the open range. Don't sift through these pages to determine what temperature you should preheat the oven to prepare the "Texas Beef Pot Roast," for example, because Esson, a member of the Guild of Food Writers, assumes you'll use an outdoor fire or a grill (although some of his recipes, like the "Turkey Stew," make use of the refrigerator). To make "Biscuits on Sticks," for example, readers should "Divide the dough into about 18 pieces and flatten each out with your hands. Wrap each piece around the tip of a well-scrubbed, thick, green, nontoxic shrub branch that is long enough to use safely on the fire." Recipes for meat dishes, vegetable dishes and soups, snacks and breakfast meals are interspersed with pages devoted to cowboy doggerel and brief discursions covering such topics as the roundup, cowboy songs and stampedes. The chapter on "Breads and Sweet Things" thankfully overlooks the fact that sweets were often hard to find on the trail. This is an entertaining, reasonably authentic guide to replicating the tastes of the Old West. B&w and color illustrations.
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Edition details

• Publisher: B E S Pub Co
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0764156322
• ISBN 13: 9780764156328
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128