Prairie Home Cooking: 400 Recipes That Celebrate the Bountiful Harvests, Creative Cooks, and Comforting Foods of the American Heartland

Shares traditional midwestern recipes for breakfasts, appetizers, soups, salads, meat, poultry, fish, noodles, dumplings, side dishes, breads, and desserts

Judith M. Fertig is a well-known cookbook author and food writer and a recognized authority on regional Midwestern cuisine. The author of Pure Prairie: Farm Fresh and Wildly Delicious Foods from the Prairie and Que Queens: Easy Grilling and Simple Smoking, Fertig is a regular contributor to numerous distinguished magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, the London Sunday Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Saveur, Santi, Country Living, On the Grill, and Country Home. Her weekly Come Into My Kitchen column appears in the Kansas City Star. A Midwest native and Kansas resident, Fertig studied at the Cordon Bleu in London and La Varenne in Paris before returning to her Prairie roots.