Brabb assembles a wide selection of delicious recipes from all over America. The recipes are from American folklore, researched on the farm and presented here for the first time. If you never heard of Dixie Punch or never knew how many potatoes it takes to make Potato Bread, then welcome this book to your home library. Contains over 90 recipes organised by topics including breads, soups, main entrees, and desserts.

For the most part, this book contains the unusual, the exotic and many different sandwiches that will put delicious, new, and exciting tastes at your fingertips. Regardless of which sandwich you choose, remember, the goal is to enjoy while satisfying your hunger and delighting your taste buds. For this reason, the authors suggest that you take care to present each sandwich as intended with just the right garnish.

"As the Under Secretary of Agriculture I was responsible for the purchase of cranberries for USDA's school lunch program. After observing Liz's cooking class on cranberries, I was amazed at how versatile and delicious cranberries can be when prepared with flair and imagination." -Michael V. Dunn, former under secretary, United States Department of Agriculture "It is a real pleasure to read a cookbook that combines excellent food history with good home cooking. The team of Liz Clark and James Baker could not make for a happier combination of talents. Baker, the historian, leads us through the...

During their prime season, zucchini seem to spring up overnight. What wasn't there yesterday is ready for picking at dawn today. They grow with such abandon that on a dewy morning one might well scream, -Heaven's to Betsy, what am I supposed to do with then?- Pick them, my dear, at once. And enjoy them. Elizabeth David, the celebrated British gastronomic writer, championed the cause of baby zucchini so forcefully that growers actually bowed to her wishes. Her influence was equally felt by the public. In the Oxford Companion to Food, Alan Davidson wrote that zucchini -only became popular in...

"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star," the noted gourmet Brillat-Savarin once wrote. If that's so, the discovery of ice cream must be worth a whole galaxy. And the name of the discoverer should be emblazoned in the heavens. The trouble is, we don't know who made that first dish of vanilla, strawberry or triple chocolate chunk ice cream. That may explain why there are candidates for the honor all over the world. Some give the ancient Romans credit for inventing ice cream, but although they did send their slaves off to the mountains to get...