Best of Texas Farms Cookbook and Tour Book Recipes, People, Places

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The Best of Texas Farms Cookbook and Tour Book uses a variety of writing features (interviews, sidebars, tours, essays, and recipes) along with unique illustrations and maps to convey America's fascinating agricultural story. The book reveals the intimate relationship between the agriculture of Texas and its overall identity. And with a light, often humorous, tone, you are given detailed and dependable information and invited to get to know Texas from a farming perspective. You will learn about the people, places, cultures, and histories associated with the state's most commonly grown foods and key non-edible agricultural products. And in the process of weaving this tapestry of information, you will also gain insight into America's traditional small-farm values, organic farming's successful mainstream practices, agriculture's cutting-edge developments, and corporate farming's most enlightened programs. Filled with fun and practical how-to information, this book will inspire you to prepare a recipe, take a tour, or enjoy a new product you have never tried. By tapping into the traditions and mystique that surround farming in America and celebrating the family bonds and rugged individuality of rural life, The Best of Texas Farms Cookbook and Tour Book promises to enrich your spirit.