Eat Your Way Through the USA (Paperback)

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What is the best part of any vacation? The food, of course! The highlight of a trip to Maryland is soft shell crab cakes. A visit to Idaho is not complete without a variety of potato dishes and vacati

Product Details

• Paperback: 117 pages
• Publisher: Geography Matters (January 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931397341
• ISBN-13: 978-1931397346
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,310,261 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars A good idea but that's about it, October 16, 2009

By	jakespeed "homeschooling mom" (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews

I purchased this book at our yearly homeschooling convention in Florida with the intent of using it as a fun supplement to our study of the 50 states. While the idea is a great one - preparing and eating foods peculiar to each individual state - the execution leaves a lot to be desired. There is not much appealing about the recipes that use margarine, canned soups, evaporated milk and other unappetizing and less than healthy ingredients. There is frequently no explanation for why a food was chosen other than it was a recipe given to the author by someone who happened to live in that state. I live in Florida but that doesn't mean that all of my recipes are authentic Floridian foods - why does someone's cousin-in-law from Pennsylvania's cream of chicken soup casserole qualify as authentic Pennsylvania fare? We have had more success using the cookbook as a jumping off point in our own search for authentic state foods than using the actual recipes - although a few have been good most have been less than stellar. It really was irritating to consider all the myriad Pennsylvania Dutch foods that COULD have been included but weren't. That seems to be a common problem with most of the states we have covered so far. Doing an internet search using the official websites for each state has yielded much tastier, more imaginative foods for our family's study. I'm keeping a file of all the official state foods we discover - who knows, we may publish our own cookbook when we're done!

5.0 out of 5 stars Eating Your Way Through the USA, May 18, 2009

By	K. A. Alphs (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"Eat Your Way Through the USA" is designed to be a cookbook companion to the unit study "Cantering the Country." The recipes represent authentic meals from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. For each state there is a native dish, sidedish and dessert along with "fun food facts." The recipes are simple to follow and the ingrediants are easily obtainable at your local supermarket.