Indiana Cooks!: Great Restaurant Recipes for the Home Kitchen (Quarry Books) [Hardcover]

Christine Barbour (Author), Scott Feickert (Author), Tom Stio (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 24, 2005 | Series: Quarry Books

Indiana Cooks! is much more than a cookbook. It is a tantalizing feast for the eyes as well as the tastebuds as it celebrates top restaurants and great Indiana chefs and their philosophies of contemporary cuisine.

Christine Barbour, who writes a food column for Bloomington's Herald-Times, chose 15 restaurants throughout Indiana, interviewed the chefs, and procured four recipes from each chef that have been adapted for the home kitchen. Scott Feickert home-tested the recipes. The beautiful color photographs by Tom Stio will make you want to run to the store to obtain the ingredients (a helpful list of sources for some of the less common items is provided) and start cooking.

Contact information for each restaurant and a convenient map are included. Indiana Cooks! is a must-have volume for the gourmet, the talented cook, and the cookbook collector.

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About the Author

Christine Barbour teaches American politics and the politics of food at Indiana University, writes a regular food column for the Bloomington Herald-Times, and is a founding member and co-leader of Slow Food Bloomington. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Scott Feickert is an administrator in the Political Science Department at Indiana University. An avid home cook, he tested all the recipes in this book in his kitchen. He is also a founding member of Slow Food Bloomington. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Tom Stio is a professional photographer located in Bloomington, Indiana. His specialties include portraiture and dance photography.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Quarry Books (August 24, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0253346649
• ISBN-13: 978-0253346643
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #894,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Guard Your Copy Carefully, September 10, 2005

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M. A. Farrell "flatlander" (Saint Paul, MN, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Indiana Cooks!: Great Restaurant Recipes for the Home Kitchen (Quarry Books) (Hardcover)

I've noticed that there seem to be 2 kinds of cookbooks; those that sit on the shelf for many years in largely the same condition in which they were acquired, and those that are dog-eared and have certain food-stained pages with the corners turned down.

The same goes for narrative books intended to be read for the content of their story (whereas cookbooks should usually be more properly thought of as manuals). Again, two types - they either get read once and forgotten or read and then passed around or lent, often never to be seen again (in my experience).

Here's a cookbook that will receive the latter treatment on both counts. I owned this book for no more than a single day when a fellow cook absconded with it. Luckily, I've recovered the book. However, I've noticed that people pick it up for a cursory glance and then, distracted, sit down and begin pouring through it. In order to retain this book so that it can achieve dog-eared food-stained status at my own hand, I'll be giving copies of it away as gifts (as opposed to replacing my own copies as they vanish).

Whether you're new to Slow Food or not, you'll find the creativity evident in these dishes inspiring. If you already participate in any sort of Slow Food gathering, this book will be de rigueur.

While I'm partial to desserts (I must, must round up some Shagbark Hickory Syrup, p.34), the layout of the recipes restaurant by restaurant and chef by chef, a full course from each, does a superior job of emphasizing the regional elements of the foods. This is a terrific book, and the LaSalle Grill's Apple Fritters with Caramel Sauce are underway in our kitchen this very evening. That page (p.53) already has a post-it stuck to it, doubtless a presage to dog-earedness.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't let this one just sit on the shelf!, September 5, 2006

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Rhonda H. Weston "Ronnie" (Palm Harbor, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Indiana Cooks!: Great Restaurant Recipes for the Home Kitchen (Quarry Books) (Hardcover)

I was given this book as a gift and at first I let it sit on my shelf and look pretty. But recently I began to make some of the recipes for friends and each one of them got rave reviews. The pictures are beautiful; the writing is superb and now I find that the recipes are outstanding. I am ordering a bunch to give as gifts for birthdays and when I am invited to someone's home. Buy it and ENJOY!
Ronnie Weston
Palm Harbor, Florida

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Love this cookbook!, May 13, 2009

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Anna Corwin "A Corwin" (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Indiana Cooks!: Great Restaurant Recipes for the Home Kitchen (Quarry Books) (Hardcover)

This was a great find. The only thing I was disappointed about was the recipes that Bonge's Tavern chose to submit...I would have loved to have the recipe for their Sugar Cream Cake, Harger Duck, or the Sauteed Mushrooms they serve as an appetizer. Even so, this book is great. I've made several things from this book and haven't been disappointed!