Contents
Preface by Kenneth L. Untiedt
Introduction by Frances B. Vick
Stories and Recipes from The Piney Woods
Family Recipe from Charles S. Taylor by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
Recipes from Sam Houston by Jane Monday
Recipes from Boardin’ in the Thicket by Wanda Landrey
Recipes from Helpful Cooking Hints for Househusbands of Uppity Women by Archie P. McDonald
Boggy Slough Chili—50 Years of Chili Makin’ in East Texas by Ellen Temple
Hanging the Meat, and Recipes for Mushrooms and Potatoes by Craig Stripling
My Dagwood Bumstead Sandwich by R. G. Dean
Hershel Pudding by Janell Croley Chesnut
Stories and Recipes from the Gulf Prairies and Marshes
Maria’s Mom by Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell
My Favorite Stories and Recipes by Jean Granberry Schnitz
Observations on Cooking and Eating by Marilyn Manning
How I Saved Baby’s Life with My Mother’s Cornbread by Frances B. Vick
King Ranch Chicken by Phyllis Bridges
Chicken and Green Chiles Casserole by Helen Corbitt
New York Café Beef Enchiladas by Leon Hale
Stories and Recipes from the Post Oak Savannah
My Mother Was the Best Cook in Town by Robert Compton
Central Texas Czech Recipes by Mary Koock
You Are What You Remember You Ate— by Carolyn B. Edwards
Ida Grohman’s Egg Noodles by Nelda Vick
Stories and Recipes from the Blackland Prairies
Slang Jang: The National Dish of Honey Grove by John W. Wilson
Old Settlers Beans by Pat Vick
Central Texas Canning Customs in the Thirties and Forties by Kenneth W. Davis
Recipes We Brought with Us by Frances B. Vick
The Christmas “Goose” by Peggy A. Redshaw
A Bountiful Harvest by Nina Lou Vansickle Marshall Garrett
Is This Your Ambrosia? by Carol Hanson
From the Farm to the Fryer: Food of the State Fair of Texas by Erin Marissa Russell
Stories and Recipes from the Cross Timbers and Prairies
The Penzance Jam Cake by Jane Roberts Wood
Good and Easy Cooking by Dub Wood
From Eats: A Folk History of Texas Foods by Ernestine Sewell Linck and Joyce Gibson Roach
His Recipes by James Ward Lee
From Norse Kitchens, Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Clifton, Texas
The Fried Chicken Saga by Barbara Pybas
Folklore and Foodlore Treasury: The Culinary Collection of Texas Woman’s University by Phyllis Bridges
Stories and Recipes from the South Texas Plains
Government Packer Grub by Riley Froh
Lion Stew (for the Lion-Hearted) by Robert Flynn
Roadkill Dinners by Jean Flynn
Passing Along Family Recipes by Mary Margaret Dougherty Campbell
Following the Crops by Sam Cavazos
From Petra’s Legacy: The South Texas Ranching Empire of Petra Vela and Mifflin Kenedy by Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick
Stories and Recipes from the Edwards Plateau
The Pepper Trail and Pepper Cookbook by Jean Andrews
Fudge Receipt by Margaret Anna Cox
“Because It Was Good!!” by Gary and Laura Lavergne
Dobie, Webb, and Bedichek Dinners, from The Texas Cookbook by Mary Faulk Koock
Stories and Recipes from the Rolling Plains
From the Journal of Robert Wilson Booth by George Owens
“Grandma in Abilene”—Anticipating Good Eats by Scott Hill Bumgardner
Linzertorte by Elmer Kelton
Vinegar Cobbler by Darlyn Neubauer
Stories and Recipes from the High Plains
Sweet Potato Pie—Minnie Belle Davis’s Recipe by Kenneth W. Davis
From Through Time and the Valley by John R. Erickson
Stories and Recipes from the Trans-Pecos Mountains and Basins
Healing by Sharing Scalloped Potatoes by Meredith E. Abarca
Comida Rica de Pobres: Tasty Poor Folk’s Food by Lucy Fischer-West
Contributors' Vitas
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