Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip

Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip

by B. Dylan Hollis

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320 pages~5.3 hr readPublished by DKPublished 2025-01-01

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  • You love baking with a story attached and want recipes tied to real American places and their culinary histories.
  • You enjoy retro aesthetics and nostalgia, and you're curious about what people actually ate decades ago in different regions.
  • You appreciate wry humour in your recipe books and like authors who make you laugh while teaching you something.

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  • You're looking for modern, health-conscious recipes or dietary restrictions like keto, gluten-free, or vegan adaptations.
  • You want quick weeknight desserts rather than showpiece recipes that require time and classic baking technique.
  • You prefer straightforward recipe books without the cultural commentary and historical context woven throughout.

About this book

B. Dylan Hollis takes readers on a cross-country culinary journey featuring 100 uniquely American recipes. The book travels from the Southwest deserts to the Atlantic Coast, exploring regional baking traditions across all fifty states. The collection spans recipes from the 1900s to the 2000s, including both well-known and lesser-known desserts. Featured recipes include Boston Cream Pie from Boston, Beignets from New Orleans, coffee-based creations from the Pacific Northwest, sheet cakes from Texas, and Date Cream from Palm Springs. Hollis presents the recipes alongside explorations of their cultural and historical contexts, written in his characteristic style. This book serves as a successor to his earlier work, Baking Yesteryear.

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