American regional cookery

"This is a cook book of indigenous dishes; that is, dishes which belong to the very soil of America, which have grown out of its fields and plains, its rivers and forests and sea lanes. It is also a book of recipes preferred in each section of America: the way in which native dishes are cooked in Maine or Michigan or California, Boston, New York or New Orleans. In addition, there are recipes from Europe and the Orient which have become, in time, a part of American culture, just as foreigners themselves became a part of our great nation. There are recipes from forty-three states and from every section in the Union."--Dust jacket flap.