Discover the many flavors of hometown America with American Profile’s cookbook featuring more than four hundred family recipes, plus stories, articles, and more. Dedicated to celebrating American hometown life, American Profile has always invited readers to share their favorite recipes, along with the stories behind them. This cookbook collects more than four hundred of the most memorable and delicious entries. Here are real American recipes passed from generation to generation, traded among dear friends, or created to meet the needs of a family on a budget. In this extraordinary cookbook, you’ll find classic favorites with a unique twist alongside ethnic creations from around the world, such as Apple-Sausage Pancakes, Tamale Soup, Chicken Dumplings, Aunt Lillian’s Pumpkin Bread, Tiramisu Torte, and many others. Also included are helpful tips from American Profile’s test kitchen as well as thirty articles on hometown festivals and fairs across the nation. Whether it’s a simple soup for the family or a full meal for visitors, the American Profile Hometown Cookbook has just the right recipe to make any gathering a special occasion.

Relish what you eat, because good things happen around the table. The America’s Love of Food Cookbook contains 150 clear, simple, and often quick recipes designed to get you back in the kitchen and get your loved ones around the table. From breakfast to dessert, you’ll be inspired by the delicious variety offered here. Widen your dinner repertoire and spice up your main courses—from Ultimate Macaroni and Cheese to Smoky Dry Mole-Rubbed Pork Tenderloin, you’ll want to try them all. And if you’re wondering where to find smoked paprika or how to make a meringue reach new heights,the helpful tips peppered throughout the book will guide you through. Distributed in more than 500 newspapers nationwide, Relish magazine reaches more than 15 million readers each month. Relish celebrates America’s love of food with recipes from the melting pot of people, places, and traditions that make our food great.

This volume explores our cultural celebration of food, blending lobster festivals, politicians' roadside eats, reality show "chef showdowns," and gravity-defying cakes into a deeper exploration of why people find so much joy in eating. In 1961, Julia Child introduced the American public to an entirely new, joy-infused approach to cooking and eating food. In doing so, she set in motion a food renaissance that is still in full bloom today. Over the last six decades, food has become an increasingly more diverse, prominent, and joyful point of cultural interest. The Joy of Eating discusses in detail the current golden age of food in contemporary American popular culture. Entries explore the proliferation of food-themed television shows, documentaries, and networks; the booming popularity of celebrity chefs; unusual, exotic, decadent, creative, and even mundane food trends; and cultural celebrations of food, such as in festivals and music. The volume provides depth and academic gravity by tying each entry into broader themes and larger contexts (in relation to a food-themed reality show, for example, discussing the show's popularity in direct relation to a significant economic event), providing a brief history behind popular foods and types of cuisines and tracing the evolution of our understanding of diet and nutrition, among other explications.

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