Southwest Cooking

Don Strange of Texas: His Life and Recipes

San Antonio catering company Don Strange of Texas, known across the state as “the king of caterers,” is acclaimed for serving fresh, delicious food with imaginative flair, even at events attended by thousands of people. From its humble beginnings as a small grocery store and meat market, the business has evolved into an empire of catering venues. The …

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Southwest: The Beautiful Cookbook

Southwest the Beautiful Cookbook explores a cuisine as diverse as the terrain and the people who settled there. The region’s culinary originality derives from a historic union of native American, European and Mexican cultures, each contributing its own distinctive cooking traditions to produce what we know today as Southwestern fare. This cuisine is sumptuously presented in Southwest the …

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Seasonal Southwest Cooking: Contemporary Recipes & Menus for Every Occasion

Celebrity chef and author Barbara Pool Fenzl reveals the secrets and insights gained from her impressive culinary career and 36 years of Southwest living. In this beautiful compilation, she presents over 150 original recipes that burst with the colors, textures and flavors of the region―truly a masterpiece that pays homage to her Southwest home. Fenzl offers complete seasonal …

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Best of the Best from Texas: Selected Recipes from Texas’ Favorite Cookbooks

Each cookbook in Quail Ridge Press’ acclaimed Best of the Best State Cookbook Series contains favorite recipes submitted from the most popular cookbooks published in the state. The cookbooks are contributed by junior leagues, community organizations, popular restaurants, noted chefs, and just plain good cooks. From best-selling favorites to small community treasures, each contributing cookbook is featured in …

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Hot Damn and Hell Yeah / Dirty South: A Vegan Cookbook (Vegan Cookbooks)

A new, completely redesigned and re-written third edition with a new recipe (Crazy Hippie Spring Rolls!) of two great vegan cookbooks combined! An anthology of Vanessa’s The Dirty South, meets Ryan Splint’s Australian masterpiece Hot Damn and Hell Yeah. HDandHY is a finely illustrated and designed collection of recipes that aren’t afraid of spices but are suited for those …

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Ricky Lauren: Cuisine, Lifestyle, and Legend of the Double RL Ranch

Inspired by the colors, flavors, and life at her Colorado ranch, Ricky Lauren presents an epic and unprecedented tribute to the West, as both a great destination and a state of mind.Nested at the base of the San Juan Mountains, the Lauren family’s Double RL Ranch is rich in history, both personal and regional. From the legends of …

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Best of the Best from Texas II: Selected Recipes from Texas’ Favorite Cookbooks

From Lubbock to Laredo, Paris to El Paso, the Red River to the Rio Grande, ninety-nine of the leading cookbooks from the Lone Star State have contributed their most popular recipes to create this remarkable collection. This second helping of Texas-style cuisine has as much variety and diversity as the countryside. It’s spicy, it’s lively, it’s tasty, it’s …

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Brewing Arizona: A Century of Beer in the Grand Canyon State

“Sergeant… there is a brewery here!” shouted Private Lutje into the tent of his commanding officer. His regiment had just set up camp outside of Tucson. It was spring. The year was 1866. And the good private had reason to be shocked. How could anyone brew beer in the desert? The water was alkaline (when it was fit …

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