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...great cookbook can compete with any adventure novel. It will have glamorous, expensive leading characters like Mam'selle Canard and Signor Vitello, and a savory supporting cast. There will be cuttings and slicings, pairings and peelings, as in any other thriller, and the unpredictable can always be expected. Like a good novel, a well-done cookbook is also a sociological document, recording the infinite ways in which people all over the world nourish, titillate and please, borrowing from one culture, lending to another. Even before the Romans planted vines in Southern France, before Marco Polo returned from China bearing...
That same delicacy is prescribed in The Time-Life American Regional Cookbook (Little, Brown; 527 pages; $12.95). Compiled by the editors of the most authoritative cookbook series ever assembled, this savvy potpourri ranges with wit and spice from Eastern Heartland chow to the Creole cuisine of New Orleans, from the Tex-Mex chilis of the Southwest to the fish and game specialties of the Northwest...
...Medieval Manor caters to the unreconstructed Viking in all of us, emphasizing the use of fingers to deal with its almost appropriately scaled repasts. But for those who want to make some attempt to recreast a Plantegenet's Christmas dinner, the past few years have brought more and more cookbooks featuring the recipes, and the dedication to excess, of our more steadfast ancestors. This year's big seller was The Medieval Cookbook by Madelaine Cosman...
...quirks, whether it be in salads, sex or sports," Author Marabel Morgan has declared. Bubble baths, baby-doll costumes and the like having been prescribed in her bestselling books The Total Woman and Total Joy, Marabel has moved on to the kitchen to assemble a total woman's cookbook for publication next spring. Her recipes lean heavily on their titles (Heavenly Peach Pie, Boudoir Cheesecake), and her menus on their scenarios. Thus the You Tiger You meal features a hearty beef Stroganoff and a Reconcile Feast includes stuffed pork chops and coconut cream pie. "It's so important...
...relatives. Adkins, like many of the other miners, feeds his four children with the help of federal food stamps ($248 a month). Before the strike, his wife Louise spent $375 a month on groceries. The family is still well fed, but she closely follows the instructions in her favorite cookbook, Mountain Measures. "If the recipe says it serves six, it's exactly six," she says. "It don't lie. No more scraps for the dog." One of her favorite dishes is "sawmill gravy," known to other Cabin Creek families as "dough sop": bacon grease, flour, water, evaporated milk...