Lawyers of West Virginia

Best of the Best from West Virginia Cookbook: Selected Recipes from West Virginia's Favorite Cookbooks

Description

Treat your family to the down-home taste of Wild and Wonderful West Virginia! Here is an amazing collection of recipes—more than 350—from the Mountain State's favorite cookbooks featuring the likes of Cabbage Patch Supper, Southern Corn Pone, Roast Wild Turkey with Chestnut Stuffing and Mountain Momma Mudslide.

Why is this book so uniquely special? Fifty-seven of West Virginia's most popular cookbooks contributed their favorite recipes to this collection. A catalog section describes each contributing cookbook and explains how to order them. Photographs, illustrations, and interesting facts about the state take you on a tour of West Virginia. Recipes are tested, easy to follow, and taste wonderful!

Best of the Best from West Virginia Cookbook is the latest volume in the acclaimed Best of the Best State Cookbook Series. Over 1.3 million cookbooks in this Series have been sold.

Reviews

Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-01-10
Summary: "If you're looking for "old-timey" food, look elsewhere"

As a would-be West Virginian (family there for centuries,unfortunately not me), I'm familiar with country cooking as practiced by WV experts. You won't find much of that here. Far too many foo-foo recipes, e.g., vegetarian chili(!?). Give me a break! Far too many convenience-food-and-canned-soup recipes just like those you now find in the local paper anywhere. I bet these editors don't even know what salt-rising bread IS, let alone how to make it -- needless to say, no recipe in this book. The best part is the list of source cookbooks at the end. There's probably a lot of gold in those which did not appear in "Best of the Best."

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-09-25
Summary: "west virginia cook book"

Good book! My husbands whole family is from West Virginia, so I am really enjoying trying some of these!

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-09-12
Summary: "Great Collection"



For those who live in the Hills is A great Addition to the collection of Recipes in our Memories in out Boxes and those who Live out , and about the World , and Long for some Mountaineer Food great for the Book Shelves.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2008-06-12
Summary: "Great Cookbook"

This is a really good cookbook. Being that I was born & bred in WVA. , A lot of these recipes brought back a lot of good memories.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2006-12-17
Summary: "Know what you're buying...."

I ordered this cookbook to give as a gift, and I was extremely disappointed. If you want recipes from the Greenbrier, or expensive meat cuts that the average WV family would have eaten only on special occasions, this cookbook is for you. But if you want to capture the down-home, authentic flavors of everyday West Virginia, look elsewhere. The whole cookbook didn't have a single recipe for pinto beans, and only 1 or 2 recipes that used them as an ingredient. I plan to return this cookbook, and get something that more truly represents West Virginia heritage.

While a great concept, I should have known that these editors who have written coookbooks for 38 states would not be able to capture the true essence of local flavor.