Books of Colorado Cuisine
Food Lovers' Guide to Colorado
Seasoned food writer Eliza Castaneda has collected a wealth of great information on where to find, enjoy, and celebrate the foods of her home state. Whether it's green chile sauce or smoked trout, goat cheese or chocolate-dipped fruit, readers will discover Colorado's many wonderful producers and purveyors of delicious foods with this engagingly written guide. But there's much more: cooking workshops, wine trails, extra-special eateries, and the state's tastiest events--brewfests, pastry competitions, and harvest festivals, to name just a few.
Tasting Colorado
Tasting Colorado: Favorite Recipes from the Centennial State showcases the dazzling variety of Colorado's cuisine, from classic Western fare to innovative fusions of global flavors. Mouthwatering photographs bring to life 120 recipes both simple and sumptuous from Colorado's finest restaurants, lodges, guest ranches, and bed-and-breakfasts. Complementing the clear, straightforward writing are 157 tantalizing color photographs. Maple syrup gilds a stack of pancakes, sliced grilled peaches glisten atop a plate of arugula, a mélange of colorful melons fills a crisp white bowl.
Eat Like a Local - Colorado
Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local book is for you. Eat Like a Local - Colorado by Jessica Medberry offers the inside scoop on food in Colorado. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Eat Like a Local series, this book will give you a food guide from someone who has lived at your next culinary destination.
Crème de Colorado
The name says it best! This best-selling community cookbook has 700 recipes representing the best of Colorado cooking. Readers can enjoy 15 sections of scrumptious recipes ranging from Wild Duck Gumbo to sensational Chicken Fajitas. Color images by Colorado naturalist photographer John Fielder make this hardcover book a true showpiece as well as an indispensable kitchen aid.
Denver Food
Allured by the gold rush, waves of German, Japanese, Chinese and Italian immigrants brought their culinary proclivities to the American West. The early sophistication of saloons followed, and Denver's gastronomic landscape experienced a tremendous culinary evolution spanning sixteen decades. Dating back to the late 1800s, My Brother's Bar doesn't have a sign and doesn't need one, serving up history along with delicious hamburgers. Established in 1985, nonprofit Denver Urban Gardens operates more than 155 community gardens across the metropolitan region. Ahead of the curve, Chef Ryan Leinonen set the city on fire with the New Nordic trend more than a decade ago when he opened Trillium Restaurant. With these stories and more, author Simone FM Spinner follows the journey from dreams of gold to fine dining, and Denver has never been more delicious.
Colorado Organic
Every season, delicious farm-to-table recipes emerge from the kitchens of some of Colorados best restaurants. Colorado Organic brings these recipes home, along with the inspiration eight renowned chefs find in the harvest of our community farms. From farm, to chef, to your table at home, theres a shared vision that can shape the way we think about the bounty available in our local food systems.
Colorado Collage
Celebrate the rugged individualism and unique, healthful ingredients that epitomize the new West. This true Colorado treasure from the Junior League of Denver highlights delicacies from fresh rainbow trout to fruits. Colorado Collage features a wonderful collection of more than 500 recipes including Lemon Waffles with Blackberries, Lost Canyon Trout, Colorado Chili Meatloaf, and Orange Banana Ice Cream.
The Colorado Camping Cookbook
Written by a local culinary adventurer, chef and outdoorsman, The Colorado Camping Cookbook features the best local ingredients that Colorado has to offer, foraged and locally grown. Combine this great bounty with a campfire or camp stove and you have a recipe for camping success. The natural landscapes of Colorado provide some amazing ingredients with which to make your camping meals extra special. Each local ingredient featured in the over 100 recipes in this book, offers unique textures and flavors that are both healthy and delicious.- More than 100 unique and delicious recipes- Foraging tips and tricks- Camp cooking tips to make the most of your campfire or portable gas grill- Seasonal and local ingredients featured in each recipe- Drink pairing suggestions with local craft beer, wine and spirits- Recipe contributions from top Colorado chefs designed for camping.
Beer Hiking Colorado
With 50 carefully selected trails all around Colorado; ranging from relaxing urban walks to more challenging mountain trails; Beer Hiking Colorado offers a hike and a brew to suit anyone’s tastes. Explore the exceptional variety of Colorado’s landscapes and craft breweries and reward yourself with a delicious local beer.
The book includes detailed descriptions of trail locations and routes; including skill level; elevation; length; and distance. You’ll also find key beer intel; such as flavor profiles; IBUs and brewery fun facts. With map references and downloadable GPX files; you will be able to easily find your way on the trails and from trailhead to brewery.
Castle Rock Kitchen
Castle Rock Kitchen is an immersive culinary experience from the mouthwatering to the macabre, with gorgeous, moody photographs to transport Stephen King fans to kitchen tables, diners, and picnic blankets across Maine. Recipes ranging from drinks to dessert (and every course in-between) are inspired by meals and gatherings from the more than forty novels and stories set in King’s Castle Rock multiverse—a darker, more gothic version of the Maine most are familiar with. The eighty professionally developed dishes use plenty of local, down-home ingredients such as fresh seafood, potatoes, wild blueberries, and maple syrup, plus some delicacies from away.
Colorado Cache Cookbook
It's a goldmine of recipes from the Junior League of Denver! This classic cookbook offers a treasure trove of recipes that reflect Colorado's casual style of living, rich heritage, and natural bounty. Colorado Cache Cookbook includes 680 recipes that are upscale yet uncomplicated, inspiring yet reliable, in the tradition of great American cooking. Colorado Cache is the first in a collection of five famous and award-winning Colorado cookbooks and has sold over a million copies since the first printing in 1978.
Colorado Colore
Colorado Colore is a selection of more than 300 recipes designed to be artfully inspiring yet uncomplicated and accessible. In these pages, you will find recipes offering a taste of the state's diverse cultural influences and bounty of colorful ingredients, from Herb Dumplings with Baby Spinach to Farmer's Market Soup to Chai Chocolate Custard.
With memorable theme-style menus complete with suggested wine pairings and an entire section dedicated solely to fresh vegetarian fare, Colorado Colore reflects the healthful lifestyle and the naturally brilliant aesthetics of Colorado.
Christmas in Colorado
Christmas in Colorado Cook Book contains more than 110 delightful recipes from bed and breakfast inns, elegant landmark hotels and creative cooks from across the Centennial State. A sampling of the delicious dishes includes Christmas Goose with Port Wine Gravy, Olde English Plum Pudding, Southwestern Eggs Fiesta, Festive Holiday Stir-Fry, and Taffy Apple Salad. Readers with a sweet tooth will love Slovakian Prune Cake, Rum Cake with Rum Syrup, White Christmas Fudge, and Christmas Fruit Bars. Informative details about Christmas events celebrated in cities and towns across Colorado are included as well as interesting excerpts from newspapers printed almost a century ago.
