Traditional American Cooking. Region By Region Guide

Carole Clements, Norma MacMillan, Martha Lomask

ISBN 10: 0600564126 / ISBN 13: 9780600564126

Published by Hamlyn, London, 1989

About this Item

HB DJ 1st Ed. See my pic. DJ not clipped. Cream cloth boards, white titles on black box front. Ditto on spine. 36.2 x 25.8cm. 224 pages. Big heavy book. Super f/c photos throughout. Explores the breadth & depth of America's culinary experience through 187 recipes specially chosen to reflect the rich diversity of cultures that has shaped the nation's culinary development. Area by area, from the coast of New England, to the bone cracking cold of Alaska. Over 230 photos of the regions, people as well as the dishes. Some glorious recipes, ranging from the Southwest - swirled mango & papaya ice cream. Aniseed cookies. Cowboy stew with cornmeal dumplings. To Hawaii - Cioppino (fish stew) Puget Sound Clam Hash (clams). To Alaska - Mushroom & wild rice soup. Roast Marinated Venison. Blueberry Pie. Great book. Condition: Small DJ tears top bottom spine. Wear on DJ corners. General age/handling marks front and back. Underside of DJ edges discoloured with age. Boards looks like coffee stain front top left corner. Bumped wear top and bottom of spine. Wear on edges + corners. Front and back, scratch marks + general discolouration. o/p small crack top of seam. Top edge of pages faint discolouration line + page ripple. Internally clean, little wear, tight binding, good colour. DJ good minus condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Traditional American Cooking. Region By Region Guide
• Publisher: Hamlyn, London
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0600564126
• ISBN 13: 9780600564126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: James Murphy, Clive Streeter
• Edition: First
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cooking

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Synopsis

A big, glossy, picture book of American cooking, first published in Great Britain. There are full-page color spreads throughout the tour of the country, and each recipe is accompanied by a color photograph. Regional specialties as diverse as New England Boiled Dinner, Chorizo Enchiladas, and Lomilomi Salad (from Hawaii) are included. Fun to look at, but a luxury item for most collections.-- JS, Library Journal -- Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly

This glossy tome is the work of three food writers: Clements, The French Way ; MacMillan, Tex-Mex Cooking ; and Lomask, The All-American Cookbook for Non-American Cooks . The book perpetuates many of the most tired cliches of American cooking, from the "dramatic lobster" ("the banner of Maine") to cherry pie. Each section, devoted to a single region, opens with a photographic essay that features sumptuously scenic stock pictures more appropriate to a travel magazine than a cookbook. And many are mislabeled: a Texas cowboy breakfast, replete with sausage, eggs and coffee, is captioned as a "sizzling Texan barbecue," while Montana's Glacier National Park is listed as being in Alaska. Similarly, the logic behind placing recipes in different regions can be misleading: chocolate chip cookies, for example, which originated at the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts, are ascribed here as from "The Mountains and the Plains."
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.