Best of Best from Wisconsin: Selected Recipes from Wisconsin's Favorite Cookbooks (Best of the Best from Wisconsin) [Plastic Comb]

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

Book Description

Series: Best of the Best from Wisconsin | Publication Date: October 1997

From Green Bay to Grantsburg, Bayfield to Burlington, Cudahy to Cassville, ninety-five of the leading cookbooks from the Badger State have contributed a delicious variety of recipes to create this remarkable collection.

These favorite recipes from cooks all over Wisconsin will entice you to put on your apron, get out your pots and pans, and relish in the home-cooked good taste of Wisconsin cooking. Included in the more than 400 recipes are delightful dishes such as Football Stew, Wisconsin Beer Cheese Soup, Almond Kringle, Brownie Swirl Cheesecake, Beer Batter Fish, and Mom's Toasted Oatmeal Cookies. They are certain to become your family favorites, too.

Best of the Best from Wisconsin 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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"These are recipes of the people, for the people. They are recipes for the foods that people love to eat." -- Myrna Collins, Post-Crescent

Product Details

• Plastic Comb: 288 pages
• Publisher: Quail Ridge Press (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0937552801
• ISBN-13: 978-0937552803
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,086,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Recipes for cheese lovers, 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 Best from Wisconsin: Selected Recipes from Wisconsin's Favorite Cookbooks (Best of the Best from Wisconsin) (Plastic Comb)

My wife actually prefers this cookbook to the Best of the Best of Minnesota, but then she's always liked cheese.

Stereotypes aside, this is another fine book in the Best of the Best series. We use the Wisconsin cookbook more than all the others. Of the recipes we have prepared, there has only been one so far that we didn't like.

It features the kind of brunches, dinners, and desserts that most people will find appealing, as well as some regional favorites.

Again, the book is two-color and features no photographs of the prepared items.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Showcases a diverse culinary wealth of recipes, May 17, 2003

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

Collaboratively compiled by Gwen McKee and Barbara Moseley, the Best Of The Best From Wisconsin Cookbook showcases a diverse culinary wealth of recipes drawn from dozens of Wisconsin-based cooks and cookbooks. Each individual recipe is identified as to which cookbook it originates from and are arranged in the usual categories of Appetizers and Beverages; Bread and Breakfast; Soups; Salads; Pasta & Rice; Seafood; Vegetables; Poultry; Meats; Cookies and Candies; Cakes; Pies and Desserts. In addition there is a list and a catalog of contributing cookbooks (which could easily serve as a reference resource for building up a Wisconsin oriented cookbook collection), as well as a "user friendly" Index. No personal or community library collection throughout the Badger State can be considered complete without the inclusion of Gwen McKee and Barbara Mosely's Best Of The Best From Wisconsin Cookbook.

3.0 out of 5 stars Others in this series are better, October 28, 2011

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

First of all let me say I love Wisconsin and we go there often. That said, and I have had some wonderful meals in Wisconsin, I was disappointed in this book. I have many books in this series and like them all, but somehow this one doesn't really represent the food I've eaten, or the fish we've caught, in our neighboring state. The recipe I liked best was a dumpling recipe that resembles ones we have made in our family. If I were you, I'd just go there and eat yourself silly, remember what you had, and duplicate the recipe at home. Oh the sausages and the cheeses and the freshly caught fish in the many lakes and rivers, must be time for another trip.