Cuisine Texas

<p>People from around the world have found a home in Texas bringing with them a multiethnic feast replete with dishes that originated in Mexico Europe Africa the Middle East and Asia. In these pages you'll discover a magical place called Cuisine Texas where you can find all these favorite family recipes in one handy source.</p> <p>Noted food writer Joanne Smith spent several years gathering the traditional recipes of every major ethnic group in Texas. As a result <i>Cuisine Texas</i> is a virtual encyclopedia of Texas cooking with more than 375 recipes drawn from Native American Spanish Japanese French Cajun Mexican Tex-Mex Anglo-American African American Thai Czech Swiss Dutch Jewish Greek German Polish Italian British Lebanese Chinese Russian Vietnamese and Scandinavian cooking.</p> <p>The recipes cover the full range of foods from appetizers to entrees salads vegetables breads and desserts and all have clear simple-to-follow instructions. Interspersed among them are engaging discussions of the different ethnic cuisines flavored with delightful stories of some of the cooks who created or perfected the recipes. And to make your cooking even easier Joanne Smith includes information on how to readily find imported and specialized ingredients and a word about health-conscious substitutions.</p> <p>Cuisine Texas may not exist on the map but it can be found everywhere that people enjoy good food and the fellowship that goes with it. Let this book be your one-stop source for all the tastes of Texas.</p>