The Homesick Texan Cookbook
$88.58
- Hardcover
368 pages
- Release Date
13 September 2011
Summary
When Lisa Fain, a seventh-generation Texan, moved to New York City, she missed the big sky, the bluebonnets in spring, Friday night football, and her family’s farm. But most of all, she missed the foods she’d grown up with.
After a fruitless search for tastes of Texas in New York City, Fain took matters into her own hands. She headed into the kitchen to cook for her friends the Tex-Mex, the chili, and the country comfort dishes that reminded her of home. From cheese enchiladas drow…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781401324261 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1401324266 |
| Author: | Lisa Fain |
| Publisher: | Balance |
| Imprint: | Balance |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 13 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 1.21kg |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 195mm x 251mm |
| Audience Age: | 18-12 |
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Critics Review
“You don’t have to be a homesick Texan to appreciate Lisa Fain’s evocative, unpretentious prose and her accompanying seriously delicious (and easy to make) recipes.”
“Finally, the voice and the down-home Texas cooking I love on the Homesick Texan blog is now between hard covers! Lisa Fain has an original voice, and I love her food-completely accessible, honest and delicious.”–Michael Ruhlman, author of Ratio and The Elements of Cooking
“The sometimes funny and sometimes poignant memories of this seventh-generation Texan pining for the cooking of her homeland bring The Homesick Texan Cookbook to life. Lisa Fain’s move to Manhattan has given Texans everywhere a great new resource for surefire recipes and Lone Star lore.”–Robb Walsh, author of Legends of Texas Barbecue Cookbook and The Tex-Mex Cookbook
“Written with equal parts humor and tenderness, Lisa Fain’s book makes it easy to imagine your kitchen lies deep in the heart of Texas. Her enticing recipes for a wealth of toothsome Texas favorites prove once and for all that nothing soothes the homesick soul like good old Texas cooking.”–Rebecca Rather, author of Pastry Queen Parties
“You don’t have to be a homesick Texan to appreciate Lisa Fain’s evocative, unpretentious prose and her accompanying seriously delicious (and easy to make) recipes.”–Ed Levine, founder, SeriousEats.com
Lisa Fain
Lisa Fain is a seventh-generation Texan her formative years were spent on the outskirts of Houston, with crude-oil tanks and barbecue stands nearby her summers were spent outside Dallas, driving a tractor, picking black-eyed peas, and shucking corn at her grandparents’ farm. At the age of 25, she moved to Manhattan for work. In 2005, she began the Homesick Texan website, which has won many awards and has grown to 175,000 unique visitors per month. This is her first book.
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