Cooking the Cowboy Way : Recipes Inspired by Campfires, Chuck Wagons, and Ranch Kitchens

English

ISBN: 0740773925

EAN: 9780740773921

Category: Cooking / Regional & Ethnic / American / Southwestern States/Cooking / Regional & Ethnic / American / Western States/Cooking / Regional & Ethnic / American / Southern States/Social Science / Sociology / Rural/

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Release Date: 09/17/2009

Synopsis: Life in the saddle, on the trail, and in the outback has forged a style of living that cowboy-turned-chef Grady Spears calls the Cowboy Way. Its a life where boots and hats are much more about function than fashion. It means that when you eat, drink, and breathe the tending of cattle, raising beef is not just some exercise where loss is charted on a spreadsheet. When your days are filled with the smells of fresh-cut hay and the creaking of worn leather, when you wake up with the sun and to the smell of coffee on the boil and biscuits from the chuck wagon, you are living the Cowboy Way.Because cowboys spend long days outdoors in every kind of weather, sometimes for weeks at a time, satiating a cowboys hunger is a challenge for ranch cooks from Texas to Florida, north into Canada, and south of the border into Mexico. This collection of almost one hundred recipes is not only the result of Gradys journey across North America, but also the cowboys journey through history.InCooking the Cowboy Way, youll have a ringside seat at the rodeo as Grady wrestles down new recipes from some incredible cowboy cooks and kitchen wranglers who know what hungry cow folks want to eat. And in the process, youll be carried away by the magic of starry nights by the campfire and seduced by the heritage of the chuck wagon and ranch kitchens, where the menus are still stoked by the traditions of the Old West just as they have been for a century or more.

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Cooking the Cowboy Way : Recipes Inspired by Campfires, Chuck Wagons, and Ranch Kitchens

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Width: 8.0 inches

Length: 10.0 inches

Weight: 37.32 oz

Pages: 240