The food pages of The Des Moines Register, Iowa's highly regarded newspaper, have long reflected the wide-ranging tastes of Iowa cooks. Now, the experts who create these pages present hundreds of their favorite recipes, updated for today's cooks and seasoned with anecdotes gathered from readers over the years.
If the Register's editorials can be heard as the voices of Iowans, its recipes reflect and enhancde their pleasures, both rural and urban, casual and elegant—state fairs, birthday dinners, holiday reunions, family celebrations, and the ubiquitous and overflowing gardens of summer. From Green Tomato Salsa to Rhubarb Pie, The Des Moines Register Cookbook offers memorable meals for all your happy occassions.
"Anyone who can't cook a good, hearty meal out of this book belongs in the Home for the Culnarily Challenged."—Donald Kaul, columnist, The Des Moines Register, Washington Bureau
"Huh—recommend a new cookbook? Who, me? Really, I'm much more comfortable when I'm on the other end of recipes like these. Publishing new and unusual recipes ins as muchn a tradition at The Des Moines Register as picking All-State teams and hosting RAGBRAI. Register recipes have been covering Iowan's refrigerator doors and filling our recipe boxes for decades. This book is a must in every Iowa kitchen."—Chuck Offenburger, columnist, The Des Moines Register
"The Des Moines Register Cookbook reveals the incredible diversity of the people and the rich natural bouonty of the state if Iowa. The recieps chosen were distilled like fine wine as area cooks served them through the years for family dinners, at church potlucks, in elegant tearooms, and on the counters of cozy diners. The Des Moines Register Cookbook is a treasure of tantalizing treats that are simple to prepare, a pleasure to serve, and a delight to eat. Sharing is one of the basic qualitities of midwesterners, and in The Des Moines Register Cookbook they have shared their very best."—Evelyn Birkby, author, Up a Country Lane Cookbook
