Texas cowboys are the stuff of legend — immortalized in ruggedly picturesque images from Madison Avenue to Hollywood. Cowboy cooking has the same romanticized mythology, with the same oversimplified reputation (think campfire coffee, cowboy steaks, and ranch dressing). In reality, the food of the Texas cattle raisers came from a wide variety of ethnicities and spans four centuries. Robb Walsh digs deep into the culinary culture of the Texas cowpunchers, beginning with the Mexican vaqueros and their chile-based cuisine. Walsh gives overdue credit to the largely unsung black cowboys (one in four cowboys was black, and many of those were cooks). Cowgirls also played a role, and there is even a chapter on Urban Cowboys and an interview with the owner of Gilley’s, setting for the John Travolta--Debra Winger film. Here are a mouthwatering variety of recipes that include campfire and chuckwagon favorites as well as the sophisticated creations of the New Cowboy Cuisine: • Meats and poultry: sirloin guisada, cinnamon chicken, coffee-rubbed tenderloin • Stews and one-pot meals: chili, gumbo, fideo con carne • Sides: scalloped potatoes, onion rings, pole beans, field peas • Desserts and breads: peach cobbler, sourdough biscuits, old-fashioned preserves Through over a hundred evocative photos and a hundred recipes, historical sources, and the words of the cowboys (and cowgirls) themselves, the food lore of the Lone Star cowboy is brought vividly to life.

Authentic recipes from the ranch and the range.

Global best-selling home cook Nagi Maehashi is back to solve the perennial problem of what’s for dinner tonight . . . and every night. Following her debut New York Times best-selling cookbook, Dinner, Nagi brings us more than 150 brand-new, fully Americanized recipes, 800 variations on those recipes, and 3,000 possible combinations that mix and match ingredients (including her world-famous Charlie Sauce). There are crave-worthy crowd-pleasers—try slow-baked Italian meatballs in a rich tomato sauce with bubbling melted cheese or fall-apart Asian chicken cooked in a sticky-sweet soy glaze. Some dinners can be cooked in 20 minutes, and others can be made using only pantry staples. For high-impact guest-impressing, turn to Sunday suppers—the Vietnamese pulled pork is a festival of flavor—while the sweet chapter delivers on the promise of maximum decadence. With stunning photos and links for how-to videos for each recipe—and plenty of guest appearances from Nagi’s beloved golden retriever, Dozer!—this is a book for every home kitchen, for every level of cooking ability, for every budget, for every set of taste buds, and for every single night of the week.

THE WILD WEST COOKBOOK, brings you the original comfort food, with over 120 easy-to-prepare recipes: Cheddar and Wild Rice Soup, Spinach and Summer Greens with Spicy Buttermilk Dressing and much more.

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.