Revised American Gothic Cookbook [Spiral-bound]

Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1932043527 | ISBN-13: 978-1932043525 | Publication Date: June 1, 2003

Revised and expanded edition of two of Penfield's old favorites: The American Gothic Cookbook and Recipes from Our Annual Fourth of July Potluck for Friends and Relations. Art work from Grant Wood throughout. Recipes from Grant Wood, his family, friends, and others include marinated mushrooms, cheesy chowder, buffet salad, lemon bread, blintz torte, Stone City hash browns, chili sauce, Granny pie, and more.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 160 pages
• Publisher: Penfield Books (June 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932043527
• ISBN-13: 978-1932043525
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 3.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,588,015 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #77 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Cooking, Food & Wine > Reference

More About the Author

Most people never embark on a journey searching for truth, beauty, equality, and social justice. For me there has been no choice. During my youth, I was preoccupied with the quest for truth and beauty. As a photographer and writer, exploring visual truth and capturing beauty were my primary goals. I am a publisher and distributor for my company, Penfield Books. For more information, visit us at: www.penfieldbooks.com

I also have a photography business. For more information visit: http://joanliffringzugbourret.com/

In 2011, I published my autobiography of over 60 years of photography. I have photographed, Presidents, politicians, writers, artists, and many Eastern Iowans. My work has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cedar Rapids Art Museum. The complete autobiography is called, "Pictures and People: A Search for Visual Truth and Social Justice."

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5.0 out of 5 stars Recipes form the artist Grant Wood, November 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The American Gothic Cookbook (Spiral-bound)

American Gothic Cookbook in the popular recipe file-card size format, this easy-flip cookbook includes the artist's mother's recipe for stew, his housekeeper's recipe for salad dressing, and his own Cabbage Rolls. It is chock full of Grant Wood lore and illustrations, both his whimsical Farm Hill illustrations and his evocative lithographs. One recipe for old-fashioned tomato soup runs on for six pages; excuse him, but the cook is a [Pulitzer Prize-winning] writer*, just making sure the saying gets said right.

Conceived through the eye, mind and paintbrush of Iowa artist Grant Wood, the American Gothic couple uniquely reflect the cultural traditions of the Midwest. In the words of Grant Wood, "Any northern town old enough to have some buildings dating back to the Civil War is liable to have a house or church in the American Gothic style. I simply invented some American Gothic people to stand in front of a house of this type." In fact, he used his sister Nan Wood Graham and his dentist Dr. Byron McKeeby as models for the 1930 painting. Mrs. McKeeby's recipe for pie crust is included.

These are recipes for honest, hard-working, Midwestern fare. There are also lots of picnic dishes. Grant Wood loved a picnic. Penfield Press publisher Joan Liffring-Zug-Bourret has customarily had dozens of friends, family, and neighbors over for 4th of July potlucks. Favorite dishes from these fests appear in this volume.

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*Iowa's MacKinlay Kantor, author of the novel Andersonville.