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Oral Histories: Abstracts: Jones Interview: Jones Books Books Trying to find good chicken-fried steak recipes is no easy task. Do you look in the index for chicken, beef, poultry, steaks, main dishes, or entrees? The answer is all of the above! Jamison, Cheryl Alters, and Bill Jamison. Texas Home Cook. Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1993, @ $18.95. This gem of a cookbook with 400 Texas recipes has a complete chapter devoted to chicken-fried steak with five recipes (Braggin'-Rights Chicken-Fried Steak, Gary Cartwright's Chicken-Fried Steak, W. Park Kerr's Chicken-Fried Steak, Daddy-O's Hot-Times Chicken-Fried Steak, and Nuevo Laredo Chicken-Fried Steak) plus a recipe for classic cream gravy. I also learned that the Texas Restaurant Association reported that 90% of the 4,000 members serve chicken-fried steak and that an official has calculated that Texans order 800,000 steaks a day, not counting what is consumed at home. That's a lot of beef! Stuart, Caroline. The Food of Texas: Authentic Recipes from the Lone Star State , Boston: Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd., 2000, @ $18.95. If you like your cookbooks to have beautiful photographs, then this is the cookbook for you. The photographs by Will van Overbeek of Austin and Jacob Termansen make all the foods look delicious, including Grady Spears's recipe for Chicken-fried VENISON steak, thick milk gravy, mashed potatoes, and green beans. With an introduction on the culture, history, and lore that define Texan cuisine, this is a fun book to add to your cookbook collection, with 70 recipes and 90 photographs. The Melting Pot: Ethnic Cuisine in Texas . 3rd ed., San Antonio: Institute of Texan Cultures, 1997, @ $21.95. While this book does not include a recipe for chicken-fried steak, the cookbook is a favorite of many as it brings together recipes from 27 cultural groups in Texas. The recipes are used by people today and include such common dishes and festival foods as Wendish sauerbraten, homemade noodles, pickled beets, Norwegian goulash, plum pudding, potato cake, and other favorites. |
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