- Prairie Home Cooking
- 400 Recipes that Celebrate the Bountiful Harvests, Creative Cooks, and Comforting Foods of the American Heartland
- By Judith M. Fertig
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Prairie Home Cooking celebrates this glorious American regional cuisine and culture, from its diverse ethnic influences to the region’s seasonal specialties, in 400 inspired recipes and innumerable sidebars. From Native American dishes to state fair blue-ribbon pies and preserves, from barbecue and cornbread to strudels, sausages, pierogis, and pastas, the Midwestern table is a harmonious blend of the best of America’s many traditions and heritages.
Midwestern cuisine is the flavor of America itself; a triumphant mixture of tradition and innovation, of comfort and creativity, of abundance and thrift. Prairie Home Cooking offers the best of the Midwest, in recipes like Heartland Smoked Chicken and Corn Chowder, Farmhouse Tomato Aspic with Herbed Buttermilk Dressing, Oma’s Sauerkraut with White Beans and Pork, Comfort Food Chicken and Noodles, Blue Cheese Mashed Potatoes, Black Walnut Pound Cake, and Wild Raspberry Ice Cream. Prairie Home Cooking is a warm welcome to savor the earth’s bounty in cold-weather comfort dishes and vibrant summer fare, in traditional American dishes and inspired new preparations of the heartland’s harvest.
Book Details
- Paperback, $16.95
ISBN 978-1-55832-145-8
- Total Pages: 448 pg.
- Trim Size: 7 ¼ x 9 ¼
- Interior Design:
2 Color
Awards
James Beard Award nominee IACP/Julia Child Award nominee
From the Press Room
Praise
“What a brilliant idea! A collection of authentic American fare, the sort of wholesome homemede foods that created character, good palates, and a healthy outlook on life. For those of us who grew up with cherry trees and fresh raspberries, corn and tomatoes fresh from the garden, bushels full of peaches and apricots from the farmer’s market, and all those homemade layer cakes, pies, and yeast rolls, Prairie Home Cooking is much more than a simple nostalgic journey. It is pure inspiration, encouragement to head back into the kitchen and recreate the bliss of our childhood.”
—Patricia Wells, author of At Home with Patricia Wells
“Judith Fertig writes evocatively of heartland heritage food in its cultural context, giving the reader not only recipes, but also an insight into prairie life through its culinary traditions. The simple, hearty dishes of the people who settled the great American West are newly popular today because of their comforting flavors and good wholesomeness— foods we love to eat!”
—Randi Danforth, contributing editor of Bon Appétit magazine and editor of Culinaria: The United States
“When it comes to American cooking, no region can match the generosity, wholesomeness, and belt-loosening largesse of the Midwest. And no one captures the spirit of this region better than native daughter, Judith Fertig, author of the new Prairie Home Cooking. Part cookbook, part travelogue, part social history, Prairie Home Cooking is 100 percent delicious, offering more than 400 recipes that will thrill your taste buds and warm your soul.”
—Steven Raichlen, author of The Barbecue Bible