Recipes from Historic America or Mustard Seed Market and Cafe Natural Foods Cookbook

Recipes from Historic America: Cooking and Traveling with America's Finest Hotels

Author: Linda Bauer

Fed up with fast food? Tired of the boring chain restaurant scene? Why not please your palate, nourish your mind and enjoy a bit of unique American history? From a wind-swept beach experience, to a magnificent mansion on a wooded hillside, to a serene lake setting, the rich fabric of America has been preserved and is available to diners in some of the best restaurants in the country. Recipes from Historic America combines stories from the past with enticing recipes and information for visiting or contacting the establishments.

This volume is an effort to help visitors, locals, and gourmands enjoy some of the finest food and the most interesting restaurants in our country. Simply choose an area in one of the seven regions and decide which historic restaurant to visit. Pictures of the properties are included along with a page or more of history for each. The locations and methods of contact are also offered and several of the chef's favorite recipes, which are on the menu, are included.

Deborah Ebster Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information - Library Journal

The Bauers (with more than 20 years of experience writing international food and travel columns) beckon readers to visit—with or without leaving home—family-owned inns, secluded resorts, spas, and landmark hotels with historic restaurants. Their well-presented, easy-reading book is a pleasing combination of mouth-watering recipes, stunning color photos, and irresistible stories that showcase 45 fascinating yet diverse lodging and dining venues across the United States. The text is also peppered with occasional well-chosen quotations and witticisms about food, restaurants, cooking, and eating. With foreign travel becoming increasingly problematic, the authors achieve their goal of inviting readers "to please your palate, nourish your mind, and enjoy a bit of unique American history at the same time." Though this work is probably not an essential purchase for most libraries, those that do choose to add it to their travel or culinary collections will undoubtedly receive appreciative kudos from grateful readers, cooks, and travelers—armchair and otherwise.

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Mustard Seed Market and Cafe Natural Foods Cookbook

Author: Bev Shaffer

Based on the popular market, café, and cooking school founded in Ohio in 1981, this cookbook provides more than 240 natural brunch, soup, salad, fish, meat, vegetable, grain, pasta, drink, and sweets recipes. It includes indexes for gluten-free and vegetarian recipes.