This is a sampling of recipes from the many families and friends associated with King Ranch.

With more than 600,000 copies sold, The Cotton Country Collection is a classic among Southern cookbooks. This vintage book, first published in 1972, was listed by USA Today as one of the top five regional cookbooks in the United States. It includes everything from drinks and hors d'oeuvres to soups and salads to meats and candy. Try favorites such as Cotton Country Rum Punch, Andy's Creole Shrimp, Applesauce Nut Bread, Cajun Dirty Rice, Marie Louise's Turkey and Gravy, or Grand Champion Sponge Cake. Compiled by the Junior League of Monroe, Louisiana, the book features 1,100 triple-tested recipes from Louisiana's legendary kitchens.

A spirited collection of recipes and rhetoric from 30 premier guest ranches in the west. In addition to complete travel information, the book explores the culinary personality of each ranch; features complete menus; tested recipes.

Texas cowboys are the stuff of legend — immortalized in ruggedly picturesque images from Madison Avenue to Hollywood. Cowboy cooking has the same romanticized mythology, with the same oversimplified reputation (think campfire coffee, cowboy steaks, and ranch dressing). In reality, the food of the Texas cattle raisers came from a wide variety of ethnicities and spans four centuries. Robb Walsh digs deep into the culinary culture of the Texas cowpunchers, beginning with the Mexican vaqueros and their chile-based cuisine. Walsh gives overdue credit to the largely unsung black cowboys (one in four cowboys was black, and many of those were cooks). Cowgirls also played a role, and there is even a chapter on Urban Cowboys and an interview with the owner of Gilley’s, setting for the John Travolta--Debra Winger film. Here are a mouthwatering variety of recipes that include campfire and chuckwagon favorites as well as the sophisticated creations of the New Cowboy Cuisine: • Meats and poultry: sirloin guisada, cinnamon chicken, coffee-rubbed tenderloin • Stews and one-pot meals: chili, gumbo, fideo con carne • Sides: scalloped potatoes, onion rings, pole beans, field peas • Desserts and breads: peach cobbler, sourdough biscuits, old-fashioned preserves Through over a hundred evocative photos and a hundred recipes, historical sources, and the words of the cowboys (and cowgirls) themselves, the food lore of the Lone Star cowboy is brought vividly to life.

Discover fresh, new, and sometimes regional recipes that illuminate the depth and personality behind American cooking with such fare as Angel Biscuits, King Ranch Casserole made famous by Lady Bird Johnson, Texas Sheet Cake, and Apple Slab Pie. More than a collection of foolproof recipes, this is a lively portrait of the great American table.