Midwestern food : a chef's guide to the surprising history of a great American cuisine, with more than 100 tasty recipes / Paul Fehribach.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023Description: 349 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780226819495
- 0226819493
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An acclaimed chef offers a historically informed cookbook that will change how you think about Midwestern cuisine.
Celebrated chef Paul Fehribach has made his name serving up some of the most thoughtful and authentic regional southern cooking--not in the South, but in Chicago at Big Jones. But over the last several years, he has been looking to his Indiana roots in the kitchen, while digging deep into the archives to document and record the history and changing foodways of the Midwest.
Fehribach is as painstaking with his historical research as he is with his culinary execution. In Midwestern Food, he focuses not only on the past and present of Midwestern foodways but on the diverse cultural migrations from the Ohio River Valley north- and westward that have informed them. Drawing on a range of little-explored sources, he traces the influence of several heritages, especially German, and debunks many culinary myths along the way.
The book is also full of Fehribach's delicious recipes informed by history and family alike, such as his grandfather's favorite watermelon rind pickles; sorghum-pecan sticky rolls; Detroit-style coney sauce; Duck and manoomin hotdish; pawpaw chiffon pie; strawberry pretzel gelatin salad (!); and he breaks the code to the most famous Midwestern pizza and BBQ styles you can easily reproduce at home. But it is more than just a cookbook, weaving together historical analysis and personal memoir with profiles of the chefs, purveyors, and farmers who make up the food networks of the region.
The result is a mouth-watering and surprising Midwestern feast from farm to plate. Flyover this !
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On relishes, sweets, and sours: pickles and preserves. Meet the locals: Justin Dean -- A country well lit: cocktails. Meet the locals: Andy Hazzard -- Baker's delight: breads. Meet the locals: Titus Ruscitti -- Of state fairs, tailgates, and main street cafés: sandwiches and handheld food -- Please pass the corn: vegetables and sides. Meet the locals: Rob Connoley -- Pull up a chair: meat and potatoes. Meet the locals: Marty and Will Travis -- Burgerlandia -- Midwestern barbecue -- A pizza tour. Meet the locals: Stephanie Hart -- Sweets: pies, cakes, cookies, and confections. Meet the locals: Erika Allen -- What next, heartland?
"Acclaimed Chicago chef Paul Fehribach surveys the tremendous diversity of localist food practices across the Midwest. Fehribach focuses not only on present trends but on a cultural migration from the Ohio River Valley north- and westward. The book will feature many remarkable recipes-e.g., bacon fat-fried Turkey Red Wheat pancakes; delicata squash stuffed with hominy, dried blueberries, and chilies; roast duck with whiskey sauce, sour red cabbage, and turnips; strawberry pretzel gelatin salad; and many more-as well as profiles and descriptions of some of the chefs, purveyors, and farmers who make up the food networks of the greater Chicago region"-- Provided by publisher.