The All-American Cowboy Cookbook: Home Cooking on the Range

Whether they are riding the range under a blazing Texas sun or a cool Montana moon, or working on a Hollywood sound stage, cowboys and cowgirls can work up a hearty appetite. Real cowboys can ride, shoot, rope...and cook!

The All-American Cowboy Cookbook is filled to the brim with recipes from the country's most famous western stars from the Silver Screen and television to rodeo heroes and cooks on real working ranches. The collection also features recipes from some of the best cowboy balladeers ever to lasso a microphone.

In The All-American Cowboy Cookbook, you'll find delicious recipes including:

• John Wayne's Famous Grits
• James Arness' Gunsmokin' Chili
• Clint Eastwood's Western Spaghetti
• Roy Rogers' Chicken and Dumplings
• James Garner's Chilies Rellenos
• Walter Brennan's Clam Chowder
• Gene Autry's Peanut Butter Pie

Inside, you will find a variety of traditional cowboy dishes as well as cherished family recipes from?Annie Oakley?star Gail Davis and a breakfast delight from Gregory Peck.

Singers George Strait, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Michael Martin Murphey are among those who have shared their mouth-watering recipes. Your taste buds will giddy up for recipes from Brooks & Dunn, Patsy Montana, Randolph Scott, the Sons of the Pioneers and a corral full of more than 150 other cowboy stars.

Loaded with nearly 200 classic photographs and saddlebags full of Old West memories and fun trivia teasers, The All-American Cowboy Cookbook is sure to cause a stampede to the dinner table when you holler, "Come and git it!"

Ken Beck is an editor for The Tennesseean in Nashville, Tennessee, and a freelance writer.

With coauthor Jim Clark, he has written Aunt Bee's Mayberry Cookbook, The All-American Cowboy Cookbook, Mary Ann's Gilligan's Island Cookbook, Aunt Bee's Delightful Desserts, Aunt Bee's Mealtime in Mayberry, and Mayberry Memories.