Best of the Best from Iowa: Selected Recipes from Iowa's Favorite Cookbooks [Plastic Comb]

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

Book Description

Series: Best of the Best from Iowa | Publication Date: August 1997

From the covered bridges of Madison County, to the baseball Field of Dreams, to Grant Wood's farmland, eighty-nine of Iowa's leading cookbooks have contributed their most popular recipes to create this remarkable collection.

The "land between two rivers"—the Missouri and the Mississippi—boasts some of the nation's richest farmland and a bounty of delicious treats. Bring the Best Iowa cooking into your own kitchen with such traditional favorites as Swedish Meatballs, Dutch Handkerchiefs, Iowa Corn Pancakes, Rhubarb Crisp, and Stuffed Glazed Pork Chops—just a sampling of the 400 or so recipes included within these pages.

Best of the Best from Iowa 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.

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Review

"If you are looking for a cookbook that conveys Minnesota, this gives you a bit of everything." -- Janice McFarland, Post-Bulleting --This text refers to an alternate Plastic Comb edition.

Product Details

• Plastic Comb: 288 pages
• Publisher: Quail Ridge Press; Lslf edition (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0937552828
• ISBN-13: 978-0937552827
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #729,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hot dishes, Lutefisk, and Lefse, June 14, 2000

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Tim Drake "Author and Journalist" (Saint Joseph, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of the Best from Minnesota: Selected Recipes from Minnesota's Favorite Cookbooks (Plastic Comb)

Yep. Yah. Sure. You betcha. 'Dis cookbooks got 'em all.

Minnesota stereotypes aside, this is a fine cookbook filled with many, many practical and tasty dishes that the average American family will enjoy.

It features a lot of hot dishes (casseroles), meat and potatoes, brunch dishes, and some Minnesota favorites.

The book itself is nothing great to look at. It does feature a few black and white photographs of Minnesota sights and scenery, but contains no photographs of the food items.

The book is broken down into useful sections to help the cook quickly find whatever he or she is looking for.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Basic Food, May 30, 2000

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"amccullough" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of the Best from Iowa: Selected Recipes from Iowa's Favorite Cookbooks (Plastic Comb)

I like to try foods from different regions of the country and like the other books in this series, this one is very good. Most of the food isn't too fancy, but everything I have tried from this cookbook has been delicious. I would especially recommend the Pork Chop Casserole and the Radio Cake. I took these to a potluck dinner and they were gone in 20 minutes! One strength of this book is that recipes are collected from different churches, families and community groups from around the state. This gives one the opportunity to try foods representing different traditions within the state. Until I read this book, I must confess that I had no idea about the great variety of culinary traditions in the Midwest.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars down to earth recipes, March 13, 2007

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book maven "kopkat" (minneapolis, minn.) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Best of the Best from Minnesota: Selected Recipes from Minnesota's Favorite Cookbooks (Plastic Comb)

Living in Minn. my entire life, I know traditional Minnesota cooking!
This book has all the basics and lots of easy to make dishes.
I'm very pleased with this one.