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Savor the Memories

Marguerite Marceau Henderson

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Tastes, Tales and Traditions

Palo Alto Auxiliary for Children

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Lion House Desserts

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

delicious desserts galore 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This collection of desserts is right in line with the Lion House tradition. The Lion House is an historic monument that was originally designed for Brigham Young of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The house now is home to tours, a restraunt, and is available for gatherings. The food here is great and the desserts in this collection should make any mouth water. Excellent reference for desserts

very reliable, excellent results 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is truly a jewel! I have used and used the recipes, with great sucsess. I have many cookbooks, about 45 of them, and this is the one I go back to every time. It's quite rare to find so many great deserts in one place. When you buy this book your search is over.

Best Desserts around! 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you want to make the best desserts around you need this cookbook. Easy to follow recipes with beautiful illustrations help you create a masterpiece!

New West Cuisine

Chase Reynolds Ewald, Amy Jo Sheppard

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Editorial Review:

New West Cuisine offers a tantalizing taste of the West. Introducing 15 great kitchens in the northern Rockies, from upscale mountain resort destination restaurants to scenery-rich ranches to mom-and-pop roadside attractions, New West Cuisine offers a variety of seasonal menus from the region's most sought-after eateries. The settings and styles differ, but all share a passion for delicious handmade food, seasonal and local ingredients, and the rich Rocky Mountain tradition of warmth and hospitality. Featuring 100 recipes as well as helpful sidebars, New West Cuisine also contains stunning scenic photography of the Mountain West.
Recipes Include:
Smoked Salmon Salad with Heart Beets and Horseradish Cream
Charred Heirloom Tomatoes
Herb-Encrusted Elk Rack with Wild Berry Sauce
Grilled Chicken with White Barbecue Sauce
Rainbow Trout Tacos with Corn Relish and Avocado Sauce
Huckleberry and Apple Crisp
Orange Poppyseed Buttercream Cake
Chocolate Chip Tartlet
Author Bio: Chase Reynolds Ewald holds degrees from Yale and the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley. She currently serves as Senior Editor for Western Art & Architecture magazine. Chase is the author of five additional books, including Arts & Crafts Style and Spirit; Cowboy Style; and, with Amy Jo Sheppard, Sweet Treats from the Wild West. She lives in Tiburon, California.
Combining her passion for cooking with her outdoor interests, Amy Jo Sheppard has served as a chef at a guest ranch in Wyoming, a remote lodge in Denali National Park, and aboard an excursion boat in Prince Williams Sound. She lives in Helena, Montana.

Ropin the Flavors of Texas

TX Junior League of Victoria

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Ropin the Flavors of Texas - JL of Victoria, TX 4 out of 5 stars.
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This is a great cookbook! There are great recipes for casual entertaining with ingredients that are easy to find. I collect JL cookbooks from all over the US and this is one of my favorites. Maybe because there are lots of Tex-Mex and appetizers.

Ropin The Flavors Of Texas 5 out of 5 stars.
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This Cookbook has a lot of unique recepies that are very easy and and delicious. The variety also makes it easy to do a complete meal from the cook book.

South Texas Entertaining! 4 out of 5 stars.
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South Texas women have always had a flair for entertaining. Nothing is ever ordinary! The book is filled with fresh ideas in a creative ensemble of South Texas cuisine. Recipes are easy to follow and offer a twist to the overly detailed companions. Your friends will delight in your cooking and be so ever inquisitive of the recipes, this I know from experience!

South Texas Entertaining! 5 out of 5 stars.
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South Texas women have always had a flair for entertaining. Nothing is ever ordinary! The book is filled with fresh ideas in a creative ensemble of South Texas cuisine. Recipes are easy to follow and offer a twist to the overly detailed companions. Your friends will delight in your cooking and be so ever inquisitive of the recipes, this I know from experience!

Hawaiian Cookbook

Roana and Gene Schindler

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Hawaiian Cook Book Review 4 out of 5 stars.
21 of 21 people found this review helpful.

This book was really easy to use and didn't have a lot ofterminology or technique's that we're too "foreign" for usregular people. I have made at least a half a dozen different recipies out of this book so far. They have all turned out pretty well and had a lot of flavor. I am not a master chef by any means so I recommend this book to the simple cook!

well written but out of date 3 out of 5 stars.
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This cookbook written by the mainland-american manager of the now-defunct Hawaii Kai restaurant in New York City represents the epitome of fine Tiki Restaurant Dining in the 1970s.

This style of cooking is perhaps best characterized as take-out Chinese food served with a slice of pineapple in a hollowed-out pineapple-shell used as a container, eaten in a restaurant decorated with carved wooden tikis, bamboo struts and thatched huts.

Half of this book is dedicated to this genre, where the actual recipes are very similar or even identical (soy sauce, sherry, ginger, garlic) but the presentations are elaborately different with an emphasis on outlandish (flambee recipes etc). Since the average reader scarcely have time to cook dinner, the advice on food presentation hardly seems relevant.

In the time since this book was written, the chinese tiki restaurant cuisine has evolved to Modern French or American cuisine with Asian ingredients, and these are the books that you can buy from the likes of Sam Choy et al, and these are the dishes that you will encounter in the fine dining hawaiian restaurants today.

Yet, what has always appealed to me about Hawaiian Cooking, is the more humble homecooking (today known as "plate lunches") that evolved from the simple traditional dishes that the plantation laborers from Asia and their Hawaiian polynesian spouses would make. This included grilled meats with asian marinade, japanese style fried cutlets, some chinese style noodle soups, and sadly only a small number of "real" polynesian dishes like laulau, kahlua pig, lomi salmon, haupia, and poi (perhaps less than a dozen of such traditional unadulterated polynesian recipes have survived).

Half of this book does try to address this wealth of simple but authentic home cooked dishes. But that is clearly not the strength or emphasis of this book, and in fact I'm not aware of ANY hawaiian cookbooks that seem to do these dishes any justice, and your best bet at the moment is to search for recipes on the internet.

I think that in emphasizing the "new" and "high class" restaurant style cooking be it from the 70s or today's contemporary cuisine, the cookbook authors have missed out on the true wealth of home cooked hawaiian cuisine that people in Hawaii eat everyday and perhaps take for granted, but for the rest of us living outside of Hawaii, it would be a priviledge to learn those recipes.

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Nearly 300 easy-to-prepare exotic recipes with tips on shortcuts, preparing ahead, substitutions, etc. Recipes include: sea bass with pine nuts, Lomi Lomi salmon, passion fruit soup, watercress soup, stuffed chicken breasts in pineapple sauce, chestnut duck, island shrimp salad, Maui tangy sauce, Polynesian meatloaf, ko ko nut balls, much more. Also, clever ideas for table decorations and interesting garnishes.

At Mesa's Edge: Cooking and Ranching in Colorado's North Fork Valley

Eugenia Bone

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Eugenia Bone was perfectly happy with her life as a New York City food writer, but she knew that her husband, a transplanted westerner, was filled with a discontent he couldn't explain. So when he returned from a fishing trip in the Rockies one day and announced that he wanted to buy a forty-five-acre ranch in Crawford, Colorado (population 255), she reluctantly said yes. Then she loaded imported pasta, artichokes in oil, and cured Italian salami into her duffle bag and headed west with her two young children.
At Mesa's Edge is the witty, often moving story of ranch restoration and of struggles with defiant skunks, barbed wire, marauding cows, and loneliness. Eugenia learns to garden in the drought, to fly-fish, and to forage. In the process, she discovers the bounty of the region. She fries zucchini flowers in batter and dips them in cilantro-flavored mayonnaise, grills flavorful T-bones from the local ranchers' grass-fed beef, pan-fries trout, fills crepes with wild mushrooms, and makes cherry pies with thick, sugary crusts. Gradually, she begins to adjust to the rhythms of the land.
Partly a memoir, partly a cookbook with 150 appealing recipes, At Mesa's Edge is a transporting tale of rejuvenation, a celebration of everything local, and a reminder that the best food is to be found in our own back yards.

The Stinking Cookbook the stinking rose

Jerry Dal Bozzo

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This is a great, fun book! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This recipe book is published by The Stinking Rose Restaurant, a famous garlic restaurant in San Francisco. Before Revealing the secrets of 36 of their garlic dishes, The book starts by explaining to you in layman's terms, information on how to purchase, store and prepare garlic. The author has a great sense of humor, while still managing to remain informative and on topic. The interior of the book has many illustrations that are often drop dead hysterical, which makes this a really fun book that everyone can enjoy.

The cooking instructions are fairly easy and simple; the dishes prepared at home often do not taste the same as the dishes you'd find at the restaurant. I usually end up eating at the restaurant instead, and this book becomes a valuable companion to me when I eat there. Generally speaking, this book is really worth your money; you just can't go wrong. Well, at the very least, You'd get a good laugh out of it, and have yourself a pretty good talk piece!

Editorial Review:

Garlic lovers, take note--here is a celebration of garlic and garlic cuisine made famous by San Francisco's most unique dining experience--THE STINKING ROSE--a garlic restaurant. THE STINKING COOKBOOK author Jerry Dal Bozzo writes, "We season our garlic with food".

Recipes from a Pacific Northwest Inn

Patti Swanson

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All Hit No Miss 5 out of 5 stars.
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We received this cookbook as a wedding gift in 1999 and have turned to it again and again ever since. We've used it to plan dozens of meals for our regular supper club, and despite our best intentions, have yet to work our way through every recipe. (Some favorites simply demand to be revisited over and over again.) Still, without exception, everything we've tried has been simple to prepare, delicious, and well-received.

We have given this book as a gift ourselves, more than once.

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Discover the warm and inviting flavors of an original country-inn farmhouse.

A Taste of Aloha: A Collection of Recipes from the Junior League of Honolulu

Junior League of Honolulu

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Aloha tastes just fine 4 out of 5 stars.
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Like all the Junior League Cookbooks, A Taste of Aloha from the Junior League of Honolulu is chock full of the kinds of recipes that people cook in their own kitchens. So, unlike books written by the celebrity chefs of Hawaii, this one is neither glamorous nor intimidating. Still, it is elegant in its simplicity, and completely authentic in chronicling everything from the pupus (appetizers) that Hawaiians like to serve with drinks before dinner, to the rich desserts made with macadamia nuts, coconut, and chocolate. Anyone who's been to Hawaii and longed to recapture the flavor of the islands in their own home will find straightforward and reliable formulas for the Ahi Poke, Kalua Pig, and Haupia that they enjoyed in paradise.

Great cookbook good recipes 5 out of 5 stars.
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Try the coconut cake recipe. That is divine. All the recipes are good.