We offer a variety of cookbooks representing the wide variety of food traditions
in the Lone Star state. We also have a collection of Houston
area cookbooks.
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- The
Authorized Texas Ranger Cookbook
- Come ride along with the Texas Rangers and follow them from
the days of the Old West to the last days of Bonnie and Clyde.
Along with the exciting Wild West tales and vintage photographs,
you will find the best tastes of Texas in these recipes by authentic
Rangers.
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- Helen Bryan. Fixin'
To Party, Texas Style
- Nobody knows more about Texas parties than Helen Bryant, veteran
social scene reporter for the Dallas Morning News. Helen gives
the reader great hints on how to throw a party that people will
talk about for years. And she throws in fabulous party recipes
for all sorts of occasions. She does all of this with the same
wonderful tongue-in-cheek humor that made her first book, Fixin'
to be Texan, a best-seller success story.
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Marie Cahill. Christmas
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- Bob Carter. Food
Festivals of Texas: Traveler's Guide and Cookbook
- A combination travel guide and cookbook, this title is the
definitive guide to all the food festivals of Texas...a well-known
hot-bed of chili, barbecue. The author travels from "world famous"
events to tiny rural farm celebrations...tells us when, where,
and gives us a few mouthwatering recipies to show us why.
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Louise B. Dillow & Deenie B. Carver. Mrs.
Blackwell's Heart-of-Texas Cookbook: A Tasty Memoir of the Depression |
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- Deborah Douglas. Stirring
Prose: Cooking with Texas Authors
- Thirty-nine Texas writers offer up a favorite concoction, and
their reflections about the recipe's genesis and meaning give
revealing glimpses of their personalities and writing styles.
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Linda Eckhardt. The
Only Texas Cookbook |
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Frank R. Giordano. Vintage
Texas Cooking with Lone Star Wines |
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- Dotty Griffith. The
Texas Holiday Cookbook
- Sugared pecans, jalapeno jelly, Texas caviar, pickled okra,
and salsa are among the "gift giving" foods featured in "The Texas
Holiday Cookbook". No one knows Texas cuisine quite as well as
Dotty Griffith, one of the state's foremost food editors, and
no one has put together a more complete and colorful cookbook
of Texas holiday favorites for Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas,
and New Year's.
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- Hidalgo County Historical Museum. Mesquite
Country: Tastes & Traditions from the Tip of Texas
- Tabasco Award Winner National Tucked away in the southernmost
tip of Texas is a region rich in its heritage and cultural diversity.
Spiced with rare historical photos of the Rio Grande Valley, a
section devoted to traditional regional recipes, a section on
cooking with native plants and much more. This cookbook will be
your guide to exploring Mesquite Country. Benefits the Hidalgo
County Historical Museum.
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- W. Park Kerr et. al. The
El Paso Chile Company's Texas Border Cookbook: Home Cooking from
Rio Grande Country
- With southwestern expertise, the Kerrs present a collection
of more than 100 recipes guaranteed to please the most hot-headed
"chile heads" and everyone else who seeks food to set their tongues
on fire. Here are authentic recipes inspired by the cuisine of
the Spanish, Mexican, and Pueblo Indians.
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Mary Faulk Koock. The
Texas Cookbook: From Barbecue to Banquet -- An Informal View of Dining
and Entertaining the Texas Way |
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- Dorothy McConachie. Our
Texas Heritage: Ethnic Traditions and Recipes
- When the food of a culture survives, the culture itself continues.
Our Texas Heritage celebrates the culture as well as the cuisine
of the variety of groups that settled in Texas between the Civil
War and World War II. Each group has its own unique story that
contributes to the rich heritage of us all.
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Gwen McKee & Barbara Moseley. Best
of the Best from Texas II : Selected Recipes from Texas' Favorite
Cookbooks |
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- Tom Perini. Texas
Cowboy Cooking
- Cowboy cooking isn't fancy, but once you've had the real thing
you don't forget it. Tom Perini cut his teeth in the ranching
business and accumulated the kind of cooking know-how and recipe
arsenal that just can't be taught. His authentic "chuck" bridges
the gap between life on the trail and in the backyard. From Jalepeno
Bites to Ranch-Roasted Ribeye to Tom's classic Bread Pudding with
Whiskey Sauce, Texas Cowboy Cooking is chock full of recipes for
everything from a light lunch to a holiday feast. And with each
dish, he serves a generous helping of personality and more than
a smattering of cowboy lore.
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- Stephan Pyles. New
Tastes from Texas
- Texan cuisine includes enough voriety to satisfy a whole nation
of cooks, with regional influences that vary from Mexican flavors
to Cajun-style dishes to recipes based on ethnic traditions of
ranching communities across the state. In such chapters as "Texas
Tapas and Cocktails," "Germanic Hill Country Cuisine," and "Urban
Cowboy Chic," Stephan shows how these many different approaches
to food have shaped the rich mix of Texan cooking. In this revised
edition, Stephan also explores the diverse flavors of Mexico's
regions with the chapters "Inspirations from Interior Mexico,"
"A Taste of the Yucatan," and "Discovering Oaxaca and Its Pacific
Coast."
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Joanne Smith. Cuisine,
Texas: A Multiethnic Feast |
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- Grady Spears & Robb Walsh. A
Cowboy in the Kitchen: Recipes from Reata and Texas West of the
Pecos
- Grady Spears has won a real following, and garnered an IACP
Julia Child Award nomination, for the updated cowboy classics
at Texas's noted Reata Restaurant. From innovative Tex-Mex flavors
to perfectly prepared steaks to sinfully rich desserts, this is
a book for the cowboy in all of us.
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- Patsy Swendson & June Hayes. Texas
the Beautiful Cookbook: Authentic Recipes from the Regions of
Texas
- From its wide open spaces to its rich oil wells, Texas has
always been larger than life. Now this lavishly illustrated cookbook,
with all new recipes and photographs, explores this expansive
state whose culinary landscape is as vast and varied as its terrain.
Includes over 200 mouth-watering recipes.
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- Candy Wagner & Sandra Marquez. Cooking
Texas Style
- Just remembering the crispy fried chicken and luscious peach
cobblers a grandmother or aunt used to make can set your mouth
watering. And since remembering is no substitute for eating, cooks
across the country have turned to Cooking Texas Style to find
recipes for the "comfort foods" we love best.
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- Robb Walsh. Legends
of Texas Barbecue Cookbook: Recipes and Recollections from the
Pit Bosses
- Walsh delivers both a practical cookbook and a guided tour
of Texas barbecue lore, giving readers straightforward advice
right from the pit masters themselves. Their time-honored tips,
along with 85 closely guarded recipes, reveal a lip-smacking feast
of smoked meats, savory side dishes, and an awesome array of mops,
sauces, and rubs.
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