Food Finds: America's Best Local Foods and the People Who Produce Them

by Allison Engel

Paper Book, 1991

Status

Available

Call number

641.3

Publication

Perennial (1991), Edition: Rev Sub, 352 pages

Description

Craving hush puppies but you live in Boston? Need a peanut butter fix that Skippy won't satisfy? Search no further than Food Finds, the celebrated guide to America's diverse and delicious bounty of regional foods and specialty products. Fully updated and exhaustively researched by authors Allison Engel and Margaret Engel, this comprehensive resource contains up-to-date mail and online ordering information for more than 400 of America's best local and specialty food producers, from the Santa Barbara Olive Company to DiCamillo's Bakery to the candy-making nuns at Mount St. Mary's abbey. Also included are colorful anecdotes, photos, and visitor information. Engagingly written and cleary organized, Food Finds is the essential tool-time for favorite, or eaters interested in America's rich and varied culinary traditions.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member markknapp
Excellent source for hard to find regional foods. My edition is from 1991 so is surely out of date, and is pre-internet, but still has tons of useful info. Plus great write-ups of the story of each item.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

352 p.; 8.75 x 0.75 inches

ISBN

0060962445 / 9780060962449
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