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Texas Experience: Friendship and Food Texas Style, a Cookbook from the Richardson Woman's Club

Richardson Woman's Club, Ivanette Dennis

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A Bowl of Red

Frank X. Tolbert, Hallie Stillwell

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

A Classic Must-Have 5 out of 5 stars.
16 of 16 people found this review helpful.

This classic is a must-have for the true chili lover and chili historian. It's the book that revived interest in chili.

An Early Manifesto in the American Food Revolution 5 out of 5 stars.
12 of 13 people found this review helpful.

Frank Tolbert's A Bowl of Red started out as a series of columns in the Dallas News but it's hard to define exactly what this book is in terms of form. It's not really a cookbook but I've made terrific chilis from his suggested recipes. It's not even completely about chili, although it starts out with that classic American (not Mexican) dish. Tolbert starts with a rambling history of the origins of chili in Texas cuisine and uses that as a base for wandering around through southwestern cuisine, famous Texas and southern cooks, ghost towns, European immigrants in Texas, the science of chili, chuck wagon chefs and too many other topics to list. His descriptions of the first several World Series of Chili Cookoffs in Terlingua, Texas read like a combination of the Marx Brothers and P.J.O'Rourke.

It may be hard to believe but this book is hard to put down. It's one of a kind.

New Tastes from Texas

Stephan Pyles

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Suddenly, My Favorite Cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.

As a fairly serious cook who moved to Texas from the Midwest a couple of years ago, I've been intrigued by the "New Tastes" experienced in the better Texas or Tex-Mex restauarants I've visited. Trying to figure out how to prepare and blend ingredients I wasn't very familiar with has been complicated and time consuming. Stephen Pyles "New Tastes From Texas" has done more for my grasp of New Texas Cuisine than any other cookbook or resource I've read. In this book, Chef Pyles provides not only the basic preparations (pure chili powder, chili pastes, etc.) but also some of his very best recipes. Having recipes for Star Canyon's "Cowboy Ribeye", "Rock Shrimp Taquitos" and "Heaven and Hell Cake" are alone worthe price of the book. Buy it . . . you'll love it!

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No one knows Texan food like Stephen Pyles, acclaimed chef of Star Canyon and AquaKnox restaurants in Dallas. Ever since the release of his best-selling New Texas Cuisine, cooks around the country have been hungry for more. The wait is over with New Tastes from Texas, a companion to Stephan's new public television series of the same name.  This glorious, lushly illustrated new collection of recipes takes readers on a culinary tour of the great state, from the Gulf Coast to the great wide west, from the bayou to the border.

Santa Fe Kitchens (Museum of New Mexico Foundatn)

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A cookbook of over 300 mouth-watering dishes from a variety of accomplished Santa Fe chefs 5 out of 5 stars.
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Developed by The Museum of New Mexico Foundation Members and Friends, Santa Fe Kitchens: Delicious Recipes From The Southwest is a cookbook of over 300 mouth-watering dishes from a variety of accomplished Santa Fe chefs, including the proprietors of Coyote Cafe, El Farol, Harry's Roadhouse, Jinja Cafe, and many more. Sample recipes include such culinary delights as Chile Cheese Cookies, Pasta Fiesta Salad, Chicken Santa Fe, and Pinon Nut Cookies. Illustrated with vintage photographs and artworks centered around the seasonal beauty of Santa Fe, Santa Fe Kitchens is truly a "best-of-the-best" recipe book showcasing the highest talents of the local professionals, and reflecting a measure of the zest of the city itself.

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For centuries, Santa Fe has charmed visitors and captured the imagination and spirit of its residents. A central ingredient in the making of Santa Fe's charm has been the kitchens of the city and the surrounding area. Whether in the home or in restaurants, Santa Fe kitchens reflect the diversity of its residents and visitors, and blend the diverse cultures of New Mexico. Now, the Museum of New Mexico Foundation has collected more than 300 recipes from its membership, local chefs, artists and dignitaries to help create this exciting new cookbook.

Santa Fe Cooking School Flavors of the Southwest

Susan D. Curtis

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An exciting Santa Fe institution for the foodie 4 out of 5 stars.
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The Santa Fe Cooking School is located just a couple of blocks from the Plaza, and offers a host of opportunities for anyone looking for information on Southwestern cooking. It's well worth checking out the home page of the school listed in the first Comment to this Review.

Santa Fe Cooking School Flavors of the Southwest by Susan D. Curtis, owner of the school, is the second "official" cookbook for the school; the first is The Santa Fe School of Cooking Cookbook.

The first book is a good introduction to the school and its approach, but the second is clearly a better book. There are dozens of new recipes, techniques, traditions and flavors with more of a focus on fresh ingredients, local foods and products, Native American, Mexican, and Spanish flavors. The photographs by Eric Swanson are especially good and add to the value of the book. And, frankly, Curtis has become a better teacher; the recipes seemed clearer and more friendly to this intermediate cook.

Amazon provides a very generous selection of pages from "Southwest Flavors" so I'll not provide a sample recipe. Instead, the following list of recommended Santa Fe oriented cook books was provided by an excellent cook who has spent ten years cooking and eating in Santa Fe. She warns that the quality of the books varies, but "I like to get books and compare their versions of standbys like green chile stew or enchiladas or posole. So it might seem like I have a lot of these, but I use them all at various times for various dishes."

Cafe Pasqual's Cookbook: Spirited Recipes from Santa Fe by Katharine Kagel.

Cooking With Cafe Pasqual's: Recipes From Santa Fe's Renowned Corner Cafe by Katharine Kagel.

The Food of Santa Fe: Authentic Recipes from the American Southwest by Dave DeWitt and Nancy Gerlach.

Coyote Cafe by Mark Miller.

Harry's Roadhouse Cookbook by Harry Shapiro.

The Red Chile Bible: Southwestern Classic & Gourmet Recipes by Kathleen Hansel and Audrey Jenkins.

Green Chile Bible: Award-Winning New Mexico Recipes from readers of the "Albuquerque Tribune." [According to my friend, "This one is really hit and miss as it's a compilation of submitted recipes by everyday people. Some things just seem odd. But then again, they are mostly the way the majority of people here eat."]

The Rancho de Chimayo Cookbook: The Traditional Cooking of New Mexico by Cheryl and Bill Jamison.

I've signed up for a short course at the school, and have been practicing several of the recipes in anticipation of getting professional guidance. I've also put together a collection of these books. It will be great fun to learn about the ins and outs of Santa Fe cooking.

Robert C. Ross 2008

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For over fifteen years, visitors to Santa Fe have learned that the best meal they'll have there may be one prepared by a guest chef at the Santa Fe School of Cooking. Now anyone can share in the expertise of some of this culinary hot spot's top chefs with this follow-up cookbook to the original Santa Fe School of Cooking. Here are dozens of recipes, techniques, traditions and flavors that helped define a region. Fresh ingredients, local foods and products, Native American and Mexican flavors, and the blessed green chile are the hallmarks for Santa Fe-style cooking. All original recipes, exemplifying traditional New Mexican, Spanish, and contemporary Southwest cuisine. Sidebars and features include chiles, equipment, wines of New Mexico, farmers market, techniques for nopales and tamale.

Red Sage: Contemporary Western Cuisine

Mark Charles Miller

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Interesting recipes. Difficult-to-obtain ingredients. 3 out of 5 stars.
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If you have easy access to squab, pheasant, loin of rabbit, quail, buffalo, antelope, Mexican oregano, blackberries, poblano chiles, gualjillo chiles, serrano chiles, chile molido, chile carib, chipotles in adobo sauce, Apaloosa beans, calypso beans, Steuben yellow beans, fresh hoja santa leaf, dry aged goat cheese, smoked gouda, chanterelles, Silver Queen corn, fresh marjoarm, fresh epazota, pumpkin seeds, cumin seeds, dried blueberries, huckleberries, etc., then you might find the recipes in "Red Sage: Contempoary American Cuisine" the kind that will give a fresh and creative twist to your culinary endeavors. Otherwise, you are likely find very little in this book that you can put to use in your kitchen.

Exquisite western cookbook! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Talk about a beautiful, well-done cookbook! I've cooked three recipes from this, and each was just spectacular in both taste and presentation. The difficulty in prep was medium, and he provides some alternative ingredients as well which really helps.

His balance between heat and sweet is sophisticated. Use of buffalo and antelope is remarkable. Takes me back to my western upbringing now that I reside in the midwest.

His anthropology background makes the surrounding test fascinating. Well researched and presented. Great read! Will become a favorite in my collection.

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The Peach Tree Tea Room Cookbook

Cynthia Collins Pedregon

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Peach Tree is a Peach 5 out of 5 stars.
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My wife had this cookbook when we got married in 1993, and she frequently consults it for everyday cooking and frequent entertaining. Although we have not tried every recipe in the book, of the dozens we have tried, all are delicious. As the chief cook in our house, my wife, Joy, likes the logical organization of the recipes and their easy-to-read style. As the chief eater in our house, I like the way Peach Tree recipes taste.

I am a US diplomat, and we entertain guests often at our home in Bangladesh. This cookbook has earned our trust to the point that we have used it to plan dinner parties, without testing the recipes ahead of time. The Peach Tree Cookbook (as it is called at our house) has never let us down.

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The Peach Tree Tea Room Cookbook is a collection of proven recipes which Cynthia developed at her famous central Texas restaurant. Cynthia's reputation for preparing dishes, beautifully presented, from fresh seasonal ingredients, is renown. Her recipes are straightforward, using easy-to-find ingredients, where even the novice will feel comfortable. The book contains fabulous recipes for soups, quiches, sandwiches, salads, entrees, breads, and scrumptious desserts, all developed and served at her restaurant. Her Chilled Avocado Soup, Cynthia's Chicken Salad, Jalapeno-Potato Salad, Ice Cream Pie, and Collins Chocolate Cake, are legendary.

Lone Star Legacy: A Texas Cookbook

Austin Junior Forum Inc.

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Easiest cooking and quick wonderful recipes 5 out of 5 stars.
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The three cookbooks Lone Star Legacy, Lone Star Legacy II and Changing Thymes are excellent, easy recipes for family and entertaining. The Lone Star Legacy (blue) book has recipes for basic great meals; Lone Star Legacy II has very tasty, easy meals and a particularly great Tex-Mex section with some speciality Mexican dishes. The Changing Thymes has very simple recipes that always turn out -- Citrus Mint Tea is great. This book has had all the recipes analyzed for dietary information and caloric content. A real plus for those watching their diets and cholesteral. The trio of these books is a must for good cooks, who like to make entertaining and family meals easy and delicious.

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Lone Star Legacy has sold more than 200,000 copies and was the first Texas cookbook voted into the McIlhenny Community Cookbook Hall of Fame. It's more than just a cookbook--it is a keepsake! Over 800 recipes are seasoned with cooking tips, spiced with Texas trivia, and frosted with breathtaking photos of Texas landmarks and landscapes. Choose favorites like the Lake Austin Cooler, Lone Star Ribs, Frijoles Borrachos, or LBJ's Pedernales River Chili to sample the true flavors of Texas.

El Charro Café Cookbook: Flavors of Tucson from America's Oldest Family-Operated Mexican Restaurant

Jane Stern, Michael Stern

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A Roadfood™ Cookbook

The colorful history of El Charro Cafe and the 150 recipes for vibrant, exciting Mexican food make this book as unique and entertaining as the 80-year-old restaurant itself. It is rumored that in the 1940s, founder Monica Flin would sit on the El Charro patio, sipping martinis from teacups and playing cards with John Wayne, who was in Tucson to film westerns. Today the restaurant is run by Carlotta Flores and her husband, Ray. The El Charro Cafe, America's oldest family-operated Mexican restaurant, is located in a house built in the 1890s by Monica's father (who was also Carlotta's great-grandfather). The restaurant's signature dish is Carne Seca Beef, a Tucson passion. The beef is cured high above the restaurant's patio where strips of thin-sliced tenderloin hang in an open metal cage.

Old favorites and creative new Mexican dishes that are enjoyable to cook and to serve fill the book.

The greatest restaurants in America are its wonderful independent regional restaurants. And there are no greater experts on America's regional restaurants than Michael and Jane Stern. "Coast to coast," said the New York Times, "they know where to find the freshest lobster rolls, the fluffiest pancakes, the crispiest catfish." Rutledge Hill Press is launching a new series of Roadfood™ Cookbooks, each with recipes, pictures, and the history of one of America's greatest regional restaurants.

A Taste of Enchantment: Treasured Recipes from the Junior League of Albuquerque

Peter Vitale

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A superb addition to any kitchen cookbook collection 5 out of 5 stars.
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A Taste Of Enchantment showcases a cornucopia of recipes celebrating the culinary diversity of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Enhanced with occasional color photography, this culinary treasury ranges from Aztec Artichoke Squares; Kumquat Winter Salad; Carrales Carrot Soup; and Jalapeno Corn Bread; to Butternut Squash with Maple Syrup; Grilled Chicken with Black Bean Salsa; Southwestern Blackened Ahi Tuna with Warm Wasabi; Black Mesa Pie; and Northern New Mexico-Style Stuffed Green Chiles, A Taste Of Enchantment is a superb addition to any kitchen cookbook collection!

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Within these pages, you will find treasured recipes for both cooking and living. We offer highly esteemed traditional fare alongside new and inventive dishes that reflect modern-day southwestern lifestyles. Our favorite restaurants have graciously provided their perennial pleasures to enhance your enchanted journey into New Mexico's cuisine and culture.