The New Midwestern Table by Amy Thielen

The New Midwestern Table

200 Heartland Recipes: a Cookbook

Amy Thielen

Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed · Print & ebook · September 24, 2013

Minnesota native Amy Thielen, host of Heartland Table on Food Network, presents 200 recipes that herald a revival in heartland cuisine in this James Beard Award-winning cookbook.

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Who it’s for
Updated classics make the diversity and reinvention of Midwestern cooking vivid and inviting.
Themes
Midwestern cuisine, Updated regional classics, Heartland food traditions
Genres
Midwestern Cooking, Farm-to-Table Cooking, Comfort Food

About this book

Minnesota native Amy Thielen, host of Heartland Table on Food Network, presents 200 recipes that herald a revival in heartland cuisine in this James Beard Award-winning cookbook. Amy Thielen grew up in rural northern Minnesota, waiting in lines for potluck buffets amid loops of smoked sausages from her uncle’s meat market and in the company of women who could put up jelly without a recipe.

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She spent years cooking in some of New York City’s best restaurants, but it took moving home in 2008 for her to rediscover the wealth and diversity of the Midwestern table, and to witness its reinvention. The New Midwestern Table reveals all that she’s come to love—and learn—about the foods of her native Midwest, through updated classic recipes and numerous encounters with spirited home cooks and some of the region’s most passionate food producers. With 150 color photographs capturing these fresh-from-the-land dishes and the striking beauty of the terrain, this cookbook will cause any home cook to fall in love with the captivating flavors of the American heartland.

Heartland, Reconsidered

Updated classics make the diversity and reinvention of Midwestern cooking vivid and inviting.

Come here for

  • A fresh look at familiar heartland dishes
  • Encounters with home cooks and regional food producers

Expect

  • Recipes rooted in Amy Thielen’s native Midwest
  • A cookbook pairing food with the beauty of the region

Where it sits

Midwestern Cooking100%
Farm-to-Table Cooking36%
Comfort Food24%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Midwestern Cooking
  • Canning & Preserving
  • Seasonal Cooking
Authors
Amy Thielen
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Published
September 24, 2013
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Midwestern cuisine · Updated regional classics · Heartland food traditions
Reading lane
Midwestern Cooking