American Regional Cooking
American Regional Cooking: A Culinary Journey examines America’s regions and cooking styles–providing an understanding of not only flavor concepts, but how cuisines have developed and evolved. A companion text to International Cooking: A Culinary Journey, this textbook follows a concise format that explains the history, topography, prevalent foods, ingredients, cooking methods, and characteristics of specific states and regions.\ Key Features:\ \ Over 200 tested recipes cover all segments of...
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Examines America’s regions and cooking styles—providing an understanding of not only their flavor concepts, but how the cuisines developed and evolved. A companion to International Cooking: A Culinary Journey, it follows a concise format that explains the history, topography, prevalent foods, ingredients, cooking methods, and characteristics of specific states and entire regions. Over 200 tested recipes cover all segments of the menu, with many offering contemporary twists to traditional dishes. Wine pairings, accompanying photographs, and sidebars heighten the readers’ understanding of each cuisine and make it an excellent reference during their own culinary journey. Emphasizes the history, evolution and development of America’s regional cuisines. Over 200 tested recipes offer the opportunity to learn cooking techniques and methods from masters. Recipes cover all segments of the menu allowing students to prepare a buffet for each region including first course, soup, salad, several entrées, vegetables, starch, bread, and desserts. Photographs accompany each recipe. Removes the fear of trying new recipes by categorizing all recipes into one of six methods of cooking: braise, bake/roast, grill/broil, boil/simmer/poach/steam, sauté, and /or deep-fry.
Table of Contents:1. History2. New EnglandMaine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island3. Middle Atlantic StatesNew York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland4. Southern StatesVirginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas5. Florida6. Louisiana7. Midwestern StatesWisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri8. Plains StatesNorth Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma9. Southwestern StatesTexas, New Mexico, and Arizona10. Mountain StatesMontana, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada11. Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and HawaiiWashington, Oregon, Alaska, and Hawaii12. California13. The Melting Pot
