From the roadsides of American highways and main streets, MORE RETRO DINER is the scrumptious sequel to the best-selling RETRO DINER, celebrating the vinyl booths, bar stools, milkshakes, french fries, and meatloaves of classic diner-style food. Beaconing from the neon signs of diners across the country, blue plate specials, grilled cheese sandwiches, and hamburgers have satisfied the tastes of road-weary travelers and neighborhood regulars for decades. Diner food is comfort food. Sidling up to the counter in Anytown, USA, you ’re sure to find a menu full of recognizable favorites —easy on the tummy and easy on the wallet. Filled with vintage photographs, graphics, signs, and colorful food, MORE RETRO DINER includes recipes for all the fried egg sandwiches, fluffy pancakes, and chocolate malts you could ever want to make, selected from popular diner menus across the country. Whether you ’re looking to recreate that late-night special in your own kitchen or enjoy the memories and nostalgia of diner culture, MORE RETRO DINER has you covered.
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Vintage photographs of classic diner scenes, waitresses, and food. More than 75 popular and hard-to-find diner-style recipes from diners nationwide, including Jigger’s Pumpkin Pancakes, Banana Caramel Pie, Italian Sausage and Pepper Hero, and more.
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The diner is a delicious slice of our American pie. During the 1950s these chrome and vinyl beauties were important social gathering places, a special treat for milkshake-guzzling kids and a welcome late-night relief to road-weary travelers. Over the years, many diner menu items became immortalized in the American memory.
Fast, cheap, and wholesome, diners served the masses during lunch breaks, train stopovers, and road trips. The warmth, congeniality, and specialty recipes earned regional diners reputations across the country. While fast food drive-thrus have meant the demise of many old-time establishments, others now thrive by catering to changing palates and capitalizing on restaurant-goers’ nostalgic cravings.
Whether you live in suburbia far from the neon glow of a diner sign, or just down Main Street from a classic counter-and-bar-stool joint, these delicious meals are always on the menu when you have More Retro Diner in your kitchen.
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More Wonderful Diner Recipes and Lore,
This review is from: More Retro Diner: A Second Helping of Roadside Recipes (Hardcover)
A sequel to it's very enjoyable Retro Diner, More Retro Diner revisits those classic establishments of roadside cooking in a nostalgic trip back to the era of breakfast specials, club sandwiches and hot soups. The diner has undergone a renaissance in recent years and while there are no where near the number of diner establishments that there were in the 50's and 60's, people are once again seeing the allure of the tiny, home-cooking stops. The diner influence can be seen today even in many mainstream chain restaurants with menu options reminiscent of diner foods. As the authors of More Retro Diner point out, while all diners sold burgers, soups, etc, it was their unique creations that often out them on the map and kept customers coming back for more.
Along with vintage photos and art of diners, and diner menus, the book provides dozens of authentic recipes culled from some of these legendary eateries, many of which are still in business today. Frequent travelers, particularly in the eastern part of the country where diners flourished will certainly recognize many of the names. At it's core diner food is the best comfort food, good tasting and filling. There's the French onion soup from the Oasis Diner, Cincinnati-style Chili, fish & chips, and Ken's real onion rings. Sandwiches were always a diner staple and Mastoris diner in New Jersey boasts a menu of over 80 different sandwich selections. You'll find recipes for classics like chicken clubs, Philly cheese steaks, Sloppy Joes, and the good old meatloaf sandwich. Moving over to the grill there are delectable recipes for chicken-fried steak, skirt steak fajitas, and cheese-stuffed burgers. But getting back to those unique recipes, the section devoted to blue plate specials includes fare like the chicken & rice casserole from Moody's Diner in Maine, in business for over 75 years; the crab cakes from the Blue Comet Lounge, and Betsy's Shepherds pie. For those who long for the feeling of those family vacations in the car of yesteryear, or for anyone who just loves good home-cooking, More Retro Diner satisfies the hunger. Reviewed by Tim Janson
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: More Retro Diner: A Second Helping of Roadside Recipes (Hardcover)
When someone gifted me this book, my first thought was, "Oh, No, not ANOTHER cookbook!" Boy was I surprised as I turned from mouth watering page to mouth watering page. I want to make ALL the recipes, and better yet, I can! Not a book full of exotic ingredients and impossible techniques, but real, hearty (and not so unhealthy, as you might think) family meals.
Every recipe I make is more fantastic than the next. Thank You Thank You! Randy and Teri are clearly expert in this area, and they have definitely brought a fresh spin to the Retro book series. Kudos to Retro for finding them and getting them on board. Let's see more!
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