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License to Cook Iowa Style

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These recipes create the best meals you will ever eat. Canter has found the best recipes from the Heartland. Where else but Iowa do you find meals that people remember the way easterners remember a great novel? These recipes taste like a bear hug feels or a meaningful conversation lingers--warm and memorably delicious. Don't let the reasonable price of fool you. At ten times the price this book is a bargain.

License to Cook Iowa Style, in the popular recipe-card file size Stocking Stuffer format, is chock-full of the best recipes and notes about the best of Iowa in the heart of the Midwest. The navy blue and white cover features the Iowa Sesquicentennial.

In tribute to the development and progress of 150 years, hardy, delicious recipes reflect natural products of the state as well as the diversity of its ethnic population and community lifestyles. Typical recipes from areas with notable concentrations of specific ethnic groups include: an Amish-Mennonite Tapioca Pudding, Czech Kolaches, a Danish Kringle, Norwegian Rye Bread, Dutch Currant Bread, and others.

Band night, church social, or just backyard ice cream recipes preserve a culture that still prevails in many Iowa communities. There are prize recipes for preserving the bounty of the backyard garden, including: pickles, chutneys, and jams and jellies. And with an air of "State Fair," recipes for meats and poultry abound, along with the breads, pies, cakes, and cookies.

"Seeing Iowa" lists many of the well-known, and not-so-well-known, places of interest to travel and see. Line drawings illustrating some of these attractions are found throughout the book, which presents a nostalgic flavor of the past along with the vitality of the present - for example, there is a section of recipes with the ease of preparation and serving tailored to suit the "Tailgator."

Excellent for personal collections and as a memento of Iowa.