Comfort Food: Fuel for the Soul

By Rick Trout

Comfort food is a genre of cooking all unto itself. It reflects traditions that arise out of class, status, geography and ethnicity and thus become part of our identity. People from the South understand that they must have black-eyed peas and cornbread on New Year's Day, and that the correct day to serve red beans and rice is Monday. In other parts of our country, cornbread is served as a traditional accompaniment, but other families in the same region may serve biscuits. When we gather around our tables with these traditional family foods, we enjoy the meal at two levels: first, because the meal is a touchstone to our heritage and our identity, and second, because it tastes so good.In this book Rick Trout offers his own ideas for what defines a particular dish as comfort food and sets forth the recipes that have been important to his family and to his native Texas and the South. Biscuits and gravy, carne guisada, pork chops and ribs...they're all here, along with delicious soups and stews, quick bread and desserts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150548202X
• ISBN13: 9781505482027
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.3" x 7.5"