The Vermont Country Store Cookbook: Recipes, History, and Lore from the Classic American General Store

The Vermont Country Store Cookbook: Recipes, History, and Lore from the Classic American General Store
by: Andrea Diehl (Author),Ellen Ecker Ogden(Author)
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: 2015/9/22
Language: English
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1455558176
ISBN-13: 9781455558179
Book Description
The ultimate New England store, whose catalog reaches millions of people, presents the store’s first cookbook bringing us back to simpler days.The Vermont Country Store Cookbook captures both the essence of the iconic store and the soul of the Vermont way of life: a self-reliant, rich life in the slow lane. Through recipes, yarns, archival photos, and sumptuous visuals, it tells the story of five generations of Orton storekeepers, while featuring fresh-from-the-farm cooking that imbues the cuisine of the present with the best of the past. Approximately 120 updated and original family recipes evoke memories, conveying all the hominess of the catalogue, but also appeal to the modern tastes of contemporary cooks. The book also features sidebars of Vermont history and more than 200 photographs, both black-and-white archival and four-color photographs, the latter taken especially for the book.
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The ultimate New England store, whose catalog reaches millions of people, presents the store’s first cookbook bringing us back to simpler days.The Vermont Country Store Cookbook captures both the essence of the iconic store and the soul of the Vermont way of life: a self-reliant, rich life in the slow lane. Through recipes, yarns, archival photos, and sumptuous visuals, it tells the story of five generations of Orton storekeepers, while featuring fresh-from-the-farm cooking that imbues the cuisine of the present with the best of the past. Approximately 120 updated and original family recipes evoke memories, conveying all the hominess of the catalogue, but also appeal to the modern tastes of contemporary cooks. The book also features sidebars of Vermont history and more than 200 photographs, both black-and-white archival and four-color photographs, the latter taken especially for the book. Read more