Blue Ribbon Recipes: Award-Winning Recipes from America's Country Fairs (The Old Farmer's Almanac Home Library) [Paperback]

Polly Bannister (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1997

Through the years, across America, county fairs, food festivals, bake-offs, and national cooking competitions are held. Gathered in this cookbook are the championship recipes--and their histories--from cooks around the country.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Time-Life Books, Inc. (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0783549350
• ISBN-13: 978-0783549354
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #416,385 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Blue Ribbon Recipes: Award-Winning Recipes from America's Country Fairs (The Old Farmer's Almanac Home Library) (Paperback)

On one Monday a month in the offices of the Old Farmer's Almanac in Dublin, New Hampshire, the Almanac's recipe testers cook up the award winning recipes from the current year's county fairs. After the dish is prepared, the good people who work for America's longest running publication taste the fare and offer an opinion. Only the best recipes make it into the Almanac and only the best of the best have made it into this book.

There are a lot of good recipes in this book, from appetizers and salads, soups and stews, meat and poultry to cakes and pies. All of these recipes are blue ribbon recipes from county fairs throughout America, so you really can't go wrong with any of them. I have made both the White Oyster Chile and Jim's Shrimp and Lobster Espanole recently and both were simply delicious. There are no fat or cholesterol counts here, the emphasis is on taste, and the taste is good.