Texas Hometown Cookbook($21.51Value)

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Texas Hometown Cookbook, Texas home cooking at its best Frontier campfire cooking, spicy Tex-Mex, Cajun and Creole fare Texas food is just as diverse as it is delicious. Now you can sample it all with the Texas Hometown Cookbook. This Texas cookbook features a collection of Texas food recipes gathered from home cooks living all over Texas. You ll also explore the many tastes of Texas dishes through the various food festivals profiled within. Pick a festival recipe and you can enjoy Texas festival foods from the comfort of your kitchen. Also, learn fun facts about Texas towns and the food traditions they celebrate every year. You don t want to miss this! Texas Barbecue Texas is known for lots of things, but where food is concerned, its barbecue is probably the most famous. From slow-smoked brisket to baby back ribs, Texas does it all. Celebrate Texas barbecue with the locals at a number of barbecue festivals held each year across the state. In fact, one of the largest barbecue festivals is held every October in Grand Prairie. The International Bar-B-Que Cookers Association Cook-Off features more than 100 barbecue cooks who prepare nearly 600 barbecue samples. Witness the Obie-Cue Backyard BBQ Championship, Jackpot Beans, and even a cook-off for kids. Craving a taste of Texas right now? Bring Texas flavor home with the Grilled Texas-Style Beef Brisket recipe from the Texas Hometown Cookbook. Complete with a custom rub and basting sauce, you re guaranteed to love it. Texas Chili Cook-Offs Chili is another food staple with its origins tied to the Lone Star State. Nineteenth-century Texas invented chili, first seen in San Antonio. The San Antonio Chili Stand later introduced the world to chili at the 1893 World s Fair in Chicago. Today, the Pump Jack Chili Cook-Off in Electra still honors the history of this cherished Texas dish. This annual event commemorates the discovery of oil in Electra with a CASI-sanctioned chili cook-off. Enjoy a Dutch oven dessert contest, a remote-controlled car race, and exciting performances by local artists. Want to try Texas recipes for chili in the comfort of your own kitchen? Look no further than Texas Hometown s Herb s Chili recipe. Salsa, Spice & Everything Nice The Tex-Mex fusion of American and Mexican culinary traditions typifies Texas flavor. There s nothing like a bit of spice to kick a dish up a notch. No one knows this better than the organizers of the Three Rivers Salsa Festival. Held in Three Rivers every April, the event celebrates everything salsa and not just the food. Besides a salsa making competition and a salsa eating contest, the festival also features salsa music and salsa dancing. Visitors will also enjoy a bicycle race and dozens of food and arts & crafts booths. Try Texas Hometown s Tomato Onion Salsa recipe with your favorite tortilla chips for a tasty snack with Texas flair. Kent Whitaker has taken his down-home, Southern-style cooking to an art-form. "I like to do a bit more than burgers and dogs on the grill." He is the author and co-author of eight cookbooks, three history books, and two books for children which he wrote and illustrated. His co-authored books with Shelia Simmons include the Tennessee Hometown Cookbook, the Texas Hometown Cookbook, the Georgia Hometown Cookbook, the Mississippi Hometown Cookbook, the Louisiana Hometown Cookbook, and the South Carolina Hometown Cookbook(Great American Publishers.) His love of barbecue, grilling and tailgating are showcased in Smoke in the Mountains - the Art of Appalachian Barbecue and Checkered Flag Cooking - Tailgating Stock Car Racing (Quail Ridge Press.) Kent has also written three history books, one of which is a culinary history of WWII. These books include Bullets and Bread (History Publishing Co.) The USS Alabama, and Talladega Superspeedway (Arcadia Publishing.) He has also written and illustrated two children's books, Why are the Mountains Smoky? (Overmountain Press) and Big Mo's Tennis Ball Hunt (Great American Publishers) Kent has appeared on the Food Network and other network television stations, has hosted cooking classes at the Chattanooga Market and throughout the South. He writes a cooking column for the Chattanoogan and writes monthly articles for The National Barbecue News. He also hosts a short format radio show heard on over 60 stations across the country. A dog-lover and advocate for local animal shelters and rescue organizations, Kent and his grilling buddy, Moses, are spokesperson and spokesdog for ALPO®. Kent and Moses travel the country presenting grilling and cooking demos promoting the idea of including your canine family members in on the backyard grilling fun. Kent gives human grilling and cooking tips while Moses enjoys ALPO® Chop House Originals Ribeye-Flavored dog food. Kent and his wife Ally live in East Tennessee with one son, Macee, a Golden Retriever named Moses and a Shitzu named Lucy.