Best of Best from Arizona Cookbook [Plastic Comb]

Gwen McKee (Editor), Barbara Moseley (Editor), Tupper England (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 10, 2000

Painted on a canvas of tastes as varied as its landscape, as colorful as its deserts, as grand as its canyons, Arizona's unique culinary experience is captured within the pages of this cookbook.

Over 400 delicious recipes from sixty-five of the leading cookbooks from the Grand Canyon State are blended with photographs, interesting facts, original illustrations and a catalog of contributing cookbooks to create this remarkable collection of Arizona's favorite cooking. From Loaded Nachos to Prickly Pear Jelly, from Coyote Caviar to Pineda's Wake-up Huevos Rancheros, from Real Mexican Tacos, to Chocolate Tacos Filled with Hazelnut-Chocolate Mousse, this fabulous cookbook displays a rainbow of tastes, every one of which is a chosen favorite!

Bold, surprising, uniquely Southwestern...these Grand Canyon State recipes truly deserve to be called the Best of the Best.

Best of the Best from Arizona is one of thirty volumes in Quail Ridge Press' acclaimed Best of the Best State Cookbook Series—continuing the tradition of Preserving America's Food Heritage.

Product Details

• Plastic Comb: 288 pages
• Publisher: Quail Ridge Press (November 10, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893062163
• ISBN-13: 978-1893062160
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #899,409 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the Best from Arizona Cookbook, December 19, 2001

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"blairpw" (Surprise, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Best from Arizona Cookbook (Plastic Comb)

I have thoroughly enjoyed this cookbook & unlike other cookbooks that I have purchased I have acutally made the recipes instead of just reading them!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great recipes with southwest flavor, July 17, 2007

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Y. Takaya - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Best from Arizona Cookbook (Plastic Comb)

Some of the entries in this cookbook seem a little odd (dishes from other countries, etc), but overall the recipes in this book are exciting and flavorful. Since these recipes aren't necessarily "local" food, some of them will be new even to Arizonans (of which I am one).

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars so far the recipes I have tried are far from fabulous, June 23, 2008

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Eric Flescher "Dr. Eric Flescher" (Olathe, KS (near Kansas City)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Best from Arizona Cookbook (Plastic Comb)

I was expecting that this book and its series of recipes would have proven recipe that are proven winners. I mean its Arizona and and there I have been to some good restaurants there. I was wrong. I have tried some recipes so far and they have been downright terrible or so so. I am a little surprised but I might try some more but it is a little disheartening when it is a best of and it comes out be "not the best of". Maybe I just picked the wrong recipes and need to try some better ones in the book. Beware of this book or some of the recipes.