Cookbooks
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Home Grown Indiana: A Food Lover's Guide to Good Eating in the Hoosier State
Christine Barbour & Scott Hutcheson
Home Grown Indiana is an essential guide to the foremost sources of local foods in Indiana. Highlighting more than 400 producers, restaurants, farmers' markets, winemakers, brewers, and food festivals, this book is not only an enjoyable read, but an excellent companion during a weekend drive in the country, a day out with the family, or a holiday food-shopping expedition. Recipes from chefs who put local foods at the heart of their cooking provide inspirational ideas for what to do with the bounty you bring home.
paper 288 pp. 2008 / ISBN 978-0-253-22019-6 / $16.95
Order No. 2695
Reid Duffy's Guide To Indiana's Favorite Restaurants, Updated Edition with a Recipe Sampler
Reid Duffy
In this new and expanded edition of Indiana's Favorite Restaurants, noted restaurant reviewer and TV personality Reid Duffy takes you on a culinary tour of restaurants all around the Hoosier state. He showcases thirty restaurants that have been providing memorable meals for decades with menus offering everything from fried chicken to hefty cuts of steak, from nouvelle cuisine to country cooking, from savory Italian dishes to spicy Mexican fare, from turkey and all the trimmings to corned beef and pastrami on rye. Inside you'll find some of the recipes for their most prized entrées, appetizers, salads, and desserts.
In addition to features on these gastronomical wonders, Duffy offers greatly expanded reports on Indiana's rich assortment of innovative bistros, ethnic eateries, beef emporiums, burger palaces, roadside diners, drive-ins, pizza parlors, and mom-and-pop joints—every one dedicated to keeping Hoosiers well fed. Pull up a chair, open up the menu, and get ready to enjoy.
paper 357 pp. 2006 / ISBN 0-253-21879-9 / $17.95
Order No. 2618
Indiana's Favorite Hometown Restaurants: Where the Local Folks Like to Eat
Indiana Association of Cities & Towns
Great places to visit in the towns where you go to eat, a little history, and some quirky anecdotes to go with the favorite dishes each place features.
paper 149 pp. 1999 / ISBN 1-57860-042-1 / $14.95
Order No. 3120
More Hoosier Cooking
Elaine Lumbra
Accomplished cooks offer favorite fare recipes ranging from appetizers to main courses, beverages to desserts. Charming, original illustrations.
paper 250 pp. 1982 / ISBN 0-253-20917-X / $14.95
Order No. 2101
The Farmers' Market Book: Growing Food, Cultivating Community
Jennifer Meta Robinson and J.A. Hartenfeld
The Farmers' Marker Book examines the growing national phenomenon of local farmers' markets through the story of the market in Bloomington, Indiana, and considers the social, ecological, and economic power of farmers' markets generally.
paper 271 pp. 271 2007 / ISBN978-253-21916-9 / $19.95
Order No. 2643
