Cross Country Cooking should first be read in your easy chair for the fresh, funny and informative accounts of the writer's visits with the hospitable people whose varied ethnic backgrounds are the special ingredients of this unique cookbook. Their personal reminiscences and the writer's sketches of related historical events set the stage for the serving of intriguing foods with authentic regional or national origins.
The descriptions of the assorted dishes and the mouth-watering recipes in every chapter are certain to make the reader hungry and eager to start cooking. The writer gives clear and simple directions for the great variety of good things to eat, from Oriental appetizers to maple Sugar Mousse, and everything in between for new adventures in home cooking. |
