The All-american Cowboy Cookbook : Over 300 Recipes From the World's Greatest Cowboys

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Summary: Back in the saddle again!
Review: I picked this book up on a whim.What a pleasant and enjoyable surprise.While the real old west took place after the Civil War, around 1865, and was pretty well all over by 1890,in reality a short period of 25 years.What we have here is the the west of the real world and the west of movies,music, rodeos,and the whole western scene. That started in the early 1900's and is still going strong;over 100 years and still counting.The book is chock full of trivia and brings back to me the Saturday matinees, sitting in the local movie theatres, watching our heros, who always prevailed over the rustlers,land grabbers,railroad barons,Indians and last but not least the crooked lawman or the bank robbers.
The book is filled with hundreds of down home recipes that are simple and mouth watering.Many are very similar to ones we already are familiar with, but with enough differences to give them a western flavor.
While loaded with pictures of just about everyone you can remember,and some you don't, there is lots of cowboy wisdom as well--

"You see, in this world ,there are two kinds of people,
my friend-those with loaded guns and those who dig.You dig."

"A gun is a tool,Marion.No better,no worse than any other
tool-an ax,a shovel,or anything.A gun is as good or as bad
as the man using it.Remember that."

And then there was Roy Roger's horse Trigger.Do you know
who he bought it from and for how much?The answer to that bit of trivia is 'in the book'.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I loved the stories behind the recipes as much as the recipes. I have tried quite a few of them and they are easy and hearty. I read the book from cover to cover as there are bits of nostalgia and trivia to delight any one who remembers the old westerns.It's functional, funny, and touching.

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Summary: Nostalgia and Cooking in one Fun Book
Review: Not only a cook book, but a trip down "Memory Lane" with scores of pictures of Cowboy and Cowgirl stars of now and yesterday. Can be used as a "Coffee Table Book" as well as an addition to your cookbook collection. If the receipes aren't to your taste, the nostalgia will be!