Texas Home Cooking: 400 Terrific and Comforting Recipes Full of Big, Bright Flavors and Loads of Down-Home Goodness (America Cooks) [Paperback]

Cheryl Alters Jamison (Author), Bill Jamison (Author)

Book Description

Series: America Cooks | Publication Date: October 25, 2011

The definitive book on Texas cooking-which has been influenced by cuisines around the world, including Eastern Europe and Mexico-by distinguished food writers Cheryl and Bill Jamison, who traveled for two years around the state talking with home cooks, chefs, barbecue experts, fishermen, and farmers. Chapters include “Real Pit-Smoked Bar-B-Q,” “Tamed Game,” “Farm-Fresh Vegetables,” “Eye-Popping, Heart-Thumping Breakfasts,” “Football Food,” and “Y'All-Come-Back Desserts.”

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

This undertaking by the authors of The Rancho Chimayo Cookbook ( LJ 11/15/92) offers more than 400 recipes from every region and subculture of their home state. A section on Texas classics includes recipes for "real" barbeque, lots of chili, Tex-Mex favorites, and chicken-fried steak and other cowboy fare; "Lone Star Specialties" covers breakfasts, desserts, and Super Bowl menus; and in between are lots of meat dishes, relishes and condiments, and side dishes. Headnotes and sidebars are fun and folksy (too much so at times). Stephan Pyles's The New Texas Cuisine ( LJ 4/15/93) provides an individual interpretation of Texas cooking; the Jamisons' book is a more wide-ranging version. For most collections.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

One of the top 15 cookbooks of the year. -- USA Today

With captivating text they lift the lids on the jewels of Texas food. -- Houston Post

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Product Details

• Paperback: 592 pages
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press (October 25, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558320598
• ISBN-13: 978-1558320598
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,766 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Re-creates home in the North, December 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Texas Home Cooking: 400 Terrific and Comforting Recipes Full of Big, Bright Flavors and Loads of Down-Home Goodness (America Cooks) (Paperback)

Shortly after moving to Michigan from my home state of Texas I found Texas Home Cooking. I was doubtful that it would bring back the tastes of home I was craving. It has proven to be the only cookbook I pull out when seeking out a dish to wow my new family and friends. It truly is a reflection of Texas cooking from the Tex-Mex section (salsas, enchiladas, tamales and more) to the classic American home cooked favorites (B-B-Q, steaks, chicken fried steak, sweet potatoes) that are famous in the south. I use it for reference to recreate that dish I had and on a night when I want to try something new.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A cookbook with those all-important 'extra' secrets, July 3, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Texas Home Cooking: 400 Terrific and Comforting Recipes Full of Big, Bright Flavors and Loads of Down-Home Goodness (America Cooks) (Paperback)

Most cookbooks have standard recipes that do an okay job of getting the food cooked.

_Texas Home Cooking_ does one thing that most others don't. They have all of those little cooking secrets that add an extra zing to what would have been standard recipes.

Just their beer mop recipe has become a staple of my cooking palate. But they have so many other recipes that really make my guests cheer.

Those extra steps make steaks, fried chicken, meat loaf, fries, and other american/mexican foods into real comfort food.

This is my favorite cookbook (out of 40 in my collection)

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Straightforward, down-home cooking at its best, November 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Texas Home Cooking: 400 Terrific and Comforting Recipes Full of Big, Bright Flavors and Loads of Down-Home Goodness (America Cooks) (Paperback)

I struggled for quite some time trying to find a Southern cookbook that wasn't, you know, full of frou-frou recipes that no one in their right mind would actually use. This is it. This has that recipe for jalapeno cornbread you've been looking for. Jambalaya dressing, Jezebel sauce, praline pie and enough different chilis to start your own cook-off.

Stories and techniques accompany most recipes; shoot, I love just sitting and reading it. I may as well throw my Joy of Cooking away -- I'm never gonna touch it again.