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Eating Up the Santa Fe Trail: Recipes and Lore from the Old West

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Eating Up The Santa Fe Trail: Recipes And Lore From The Old West combines authentic recipes used by trappers, traders, settlers, Native American tribes, Mexicans, and frontier soldiers with anecdotes and stories drawn from the American West. This superb compilation of western history and recipes were gathered together by food historian Sam Arnold and ranges in origin and background from Missouri, across Kansas, to Bent's Fort, Colorado, and on to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Here are step-by-step instructions on preparing a wide variety of trail fare including buffalo, elk, carne, washtunkala (jerked meat stew); and traditional eggnog -- the drink of choice after a hanging! Eating Up The Santa Fe Trail is a unique addition to any cookbook collection and will have a special appeal for students and enthusiasts of the America West.

like the other books that this guy has done, it's a shameless plug for his own restaurant.
All he did here was cut and paste recipes from ole new England cookbooks and "the frugal Housewife" by Lydia Child.
Not only does he copy 10 different recipes from other sources for the same dish, he doesn't adjust the recipe's to modern measuring devices, using "a teacup full of flour and sugar" WTF? a teacup, how much is that?? a cup or a cup and a half?
Not only this but the quantities in the recipes are wrong and he has dry ingredients measured as wet ingredients!
Dont even waste your money and time, you will end up disappointed and confused like i am!