Product Description

The definitive guide to Lone Star cookery, with over 400 recipes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #269363 in Books
• Published on: 1993-06-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

From Library Journal
This undertaking by the authors of The Rancho Chimayo Cookbook ( LJ 11/15/92) offers more than 400 recipes from every region and subculture of their home state. A section on Texas classics includes recipes for "real" barbeque, lots of chili, Tex-Mex favorites, and chicken-fried steak and other cowboy fare; "Lone Star Specialties" covers breakfasts, desserts, and Super Bowl menus; and in between are lots of meat dishes, relishes and condiments, and side dishes. Headnotes and sidebars are fun and folksy (too much so at times). Stephan Pyles's The New Texas Cuisine ( LJ 4/15/93) provides an individual interpretation of Texas cooking; the Jamisons' book is a more wide-ranging version. For most collections.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
One of the top 15 cookbooks of the year. -- USA Today

With captivating text they lift the lids on the jewels of Texas food. -- Houston Post

From the Back Cover
The pleasures of Texas cooking are as big and bountiful as the Lone Star State. In this grand, spirited, and witty collection of more than 400 easy-to-follow recipes, Cheryl and Bill Jamison explore the many living culinary traditions that together make Texas home cooking the most vibrant, colorful, and delectable in all the land.

Cheryl and Bill Jamison have been distinguished travel and food writers for more than fifteen years. To write Texas Home Cooking, their sixth book, they spent two years traveling the highways and backroads of Bills native Texas, talking with home cooks, restaurant chefs, barbecue pitmasters, bakers, fisherman, and farmers, and going to a multitude of country fairs, farmers markets, cooking competitions, fish fries, and Sunday dinners.

Texas Home Cooking is destined to become the definitive book on that unique, wild, and woolly cuisine, which has borrowed influences from all over the planet, from Eastern Europe to Mexico. The chapters on real Texas barbecue and chili alone are worth the price of this book, but, happily, the Jamisons also take us on a light-hearted, irreverent culinary tour of the best of the rest of the Lone Star State. -Jinx and Jefferson Morgan, Columnists, Bon Apptit

Customer Reviews

Re-creates home in the North
Shortly after moving to Michigan from my home state of Texas I found Texas Home Cooking. I was doubtful that it would bring back the tastes of home I was craving. It has proven to be the only cookbook I pull out when seeking out a dish to wow my new family and friends. It truly is a reflection of Texas cooking from the Tex-Mex section (salsas, enchiladas, tamales and more) to the classic American home cooked favorites (B-B-Q, steaks, chicken fried steak, sweet potatoes) that are famous in the south. I use it for reference to recreate that dish I had and on a night when I want to try something new.

A cookbook with those all-important 'extra' secrets
Most cookbooks have standard recipes that do an okay job of getting the food cooked.

_Texas Home Cooking_ does one thing that most others don't. They have all of those little cooking secrets that add an extra zing to what would have been standard recipes.

Just their beer mop recipe has become a staple of my cooking palate. But they have so many other recipes that really make my guests cheer.

Those extra steps make steaks, fried chicken, meat loaf, fries, and other american/mexican foods into real comfort food.

This is my favorite cookbook (out of 40 in my collection)

Fabulous cookbook!
It's hard to imagine why this book appears to have been "remaindered" for sale in off-price bookstores, for it is a genuinely amusing, fascinating and generally excellent tour through regional Texas cuisine -- with none of the pretensions of the "celebrity" chefs. All of the recipes are positively fantastic. I give this book as a gift for anyone moving to or from Texas. Can't recommend it highly enough!