{"id":735,"date":"2018-12-31T13:43:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2018-12-31T13:43:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:43:20","slug":"texas-reads-archiveglenn-dromgoole-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

11.20.16\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cookbooks feature barbecue, enchiladas, chili<\/h1>\n

Three colorful new cookbooks<\/span> with a Texas flavor have hit the market this fall.<\/p>\n

Texan BBQ: A Smokin\u2019 Good Cookbook<\/span><\/a><\/span> by Robert Louis Murphy<\/span> (New Holland, $35 hardcover) includes a chapter of practical barbecue cooking tips before getting to recipes for beef, lamb, pork, chicken, sides, salsas, marinades, and rubs. Murphy was raised in Breckenridge, Texas, and says that by his teen years, \u201cI could take my hunting rifle and feed fifty people later that day.\u201d He now lives in Australia, where he starred in the TV series My Kitchen Rules.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Sylvia Casares,<\/span> owner of Sylvia\u2019s Enchilada Kitchen in Houston, has teamed up with veteran food writer Dotty Griffith to produce The Enchilada Queen Cookbook<\/span><\/a><\/span> (St. Martin\u2019s, $27.99 hardcover).<\/p>\n

Casares was dubbed \u201cThe Enchilada Queen\u201d by a Houston magazine ten years ago, and her restaurant has made Top 10 and Top 50 lists from USA Today<\/span> and Texas Monthly.<\/span> She says, \u201cI cook enchiladas \u2014 and everything \u2014 with tender loving care and fresh ingredients. I also take the time to do it right.\u201d Her book focuses on enchiladas but also covers fajitas, tamales, sides, desserts, margaritas and more.<\/p>\n

Tiffany Harelik<\/span> (\u201crhymes with garlic\u201d) has published a dozen cookbooks herself and conducts workshops on how to write a cookbook. She has even formed her own publishing house specializing in food and travel titles.<\/p>\n

Her newest book is The Terlingua Chili Cookbook: Chili\u2019s Last Frontier<\/span><\/a><\/span>(Spellbound Publishers, $24.99 paperback), focusing on recipes and stories from chili connoisseurs and cook-off competitors. \u201cIt is my hope,\u201d she writes, \u201cthat this book preserves the history, people and recipes of the greatest chili cook-off in Texas for all to enjoy.\u201d Read more on her website, tiffanyharelik.com.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Ranger tales:<\/span> Mike Cox<\/span> has produced a revised and updated 400-page hardback collection of Texas Ranger Tales: Hard-Riding Stories from the Lone Star State<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Lone Star Books, $24.95). Cox, who has also written an authoritative two-volume history of the Rangers, included stories in this handsome new volume from two other collections of Ranger tales he wrote about twenty years ago, as well as some new material.<\/p>\n

The fifty stories are arranged chronologically, but each story is self-contained. Cox says, \u201cThis is a book you can read from cover to cover, or browse at your leisure.\u201d When it comes to telling stories about the old-time and modern-day Rangers, no one makes them come alive better than Mike Cox.<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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