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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 641 EAN: 9780060747640 ISBN: 0060747641 Label: William Morrow Cookbooks Manufacturer: William Morrow Cookbooks Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: January 01, 2005 Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks Release Date: January 04, 2005 Studio: William Morrow Cookbooks Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: A breakfast that includes fresh pie is indeed a meal to enjoy. Authors Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison assure us in American Home Cooking that pie for breakfast was standard American fare in the days before Corn Flakes and Cap'n Crunch. The home cook at the turn of the last century was faced with seemingly overwhelming reasons to abandon the traditional cooking of her progenitors--ease and speed of packaged foods, the barrage of advertising, and mounting health concerns among them. "The amazing thing is not what we lost in this period," the authors write, "but what survived.... In every corner of the country cooks refused to give up their most cherished regional and ethnic dishes. They may have reserved them for special occasions, or may have altered them in some ways for convenience or health purposes, but they kept the heritage alive for future generations." And at the turn of another century where we are besieged by even more advertising, more foods built around speed and ease, and more health concerns, Jamison and Jamison have compiled a book of recipes that gives us the flavor of where have come from as Americans and who we are. This is not a unique concept. But where so many books that have preceded American Home Cooking have been rife with recipes for dishes you'd rather never serve, let alone taste, Jamison and Jamison have let delectability be their bellwether. Serve your hungry the likes of Georgia Bits and Grits Waffles for breakfast, as well as a slice of Apple-Cranberry Pie. Perhaps a Brown Oyster Stew with Benne for lunch, accompanied by an Oregon Hot Crab and Cheddar Sandwich. There's Crawfish Etouffée to consider, as well as Willamette Valley Grilled Chicken with Blackberry Sauce. Check out the Chicken-Fried Steak, and the directions for making your own fresh lard, ye of nonsqueamish nature. When you get to the Broccoli-Rice Casserole and the recipe for Wilted Greens with Hot Bacon Dressing, you're only halfway through the book. Potato and bean dishes are yet to come, as well as sweet and sour pantry goodies, breads and rolls, those great pies and cobblers, and cookies and cakes. It's all here, ending with a mint julep. --Schuyler Ingle Product Description: A celebration of America's diverse culinary traditions lays out more than three hundred delicious recipes covering the broad spectrum of American ethnic experience and cuisine, including a wide variety of classic favorites, regional specialties, little-known local gems, and ethnic delicacies. Reprint. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - American Food AnthropologyI adore this book. It's a collection of regional recipes throughout this nation and with a little explanation. It is simple in presentation, nothing flashy, but shines because of the stories throughout. This book makes me feel both comfy and hungry. Rating: - Almost all of my favorite American dishes are here!I bought this book so that I can recreate my favorite American food anywhere, and it has never disappointed me. Great mac & cheese, corn bread, cioppino! I like the selection of vegetable dishes, which are sometimes humble but always delicious. I cooked lima beans and my husband liked it, even though he said he hated lima beans! Squash casserole is very pretty and delicious. Try stewed cabbage once and you may be surprised how good a cabbage can taste. Don't miss the rice griddlecakes for your next ... Read More Rating:  - What a boring cookbook!This was a book with great promise that turned out to be highly disapointing! There is nothing outstanding in this mundane collection of recipes that can't be found in an ordinary cookbook (Anything from Joy of Cooking to a Pillsbury anthology is just as useful). The recipe for German Chocolate cake is available in countless other volumes and every grocery store. I found the directions vague. The interesting historical facts are fun to browse through, but the lack of photographs ... Read More Rating:  - A very good cookbook that will become page worn with useIt has been said "if you can read you can cook," but whoever said this did not know my x-wife. However, in the spirit of letting bygones be bygones, I am mailing her this wonderful cookbook. The Johnsons have excelled in giving us more than 300 uniquely American recipes that are simple, straightforward and quite tasty. When I first got hold of this 470-page cookbook, I tried three recipes: Georgia Bits & Grits Waffles, Lancaster Country Chicken-Corn Soup and Banana Pudding. All turned out great ... Read More Rating:  - Did California secede from the union?This is an interesting cookbook, but I knew I was in trouble when I looked for avocado in the index and found no listing! Oh, there are a couple of token "California" recipes, but there was little food in this book that resembled anything that my mother used to cook. Where are the delicious salads and the inventive homemade tacos and tostadas? We had a huge salad for dinner at least once a week in my family's house, and there is no representation of that tradition here. But anyway, if you're not among the ... Read More 
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