Book reviews
Welcome to My Table magazine’s coffeehouse and bookstore. We’ve highlighted some cooking-, wine- and dining-related books that we think you’ll enjoy. Many (but not all) have a Texas, Houston or Southern connection.
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Cooking With Texas Highways by Nola McKey ($24.95, University of Texas Press) . Editor Nola McKey puts it succinctly when she writes in her introduction that Texas Highways is hardly in a culinary league with Gourmet or Bon Appetit, but “you can’t travel the state for more than three decades … without picking up a few good recipes.” And here they are, from Lone Star classics (e.g. chicken-fried steak, green chile cornbread, tortilla soup) to fresh Vietnamese spring rolls, tabouli, paella, tacos al carbon and Lady Bird Johnson’s peach ice cream. The recipes are homecook-friendly, and we love the travel photography. What a swell melting pot of a state we live in. |
