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Buckeye Foodies Rejoice: "Tasting Ohio" features favorite recipes (and food photography) from Ohio’s top spots

What's good? 

Featuring 150 color photographs and 102 Ohio recipes

Showcases favorite dishes from some of Ohio’s top restaurants

Clear, easy-to-follow recipes from top chefs throughout Ohio

Available from your local bookstore and Amazon.com (link)

New Cookbook Highlights Best Recipes of the Buckeye State

“There are many Ohios” says chef, food writer, and native Buckeye Sara Bir. “Flat, hilly, rural, decidedly urban. And our food is equally diverse thanks to generations of immigrants from around the world who've made Ohio their home."

Bir's new book, Tasting Ohio: Favorite Recipes from the Buckeye State, celebrates that diversity along with the sheer abundance of Ohio produce. "Agriculture is the state's largest industry," notes Bir, "and people here love to grow food—tomatoes, sweet corn, green beans, berries, chickens, pigs, and more."

The hardcover, full-color cookbook features breakfast dishes, appetizers, salads, entrees, and desserts from the Buckeye State’s best restaurants, cafés, diners, brew pubs, and bed-and-breakfasts.

"Some of the contributors are native Ohioans and some came from elsewhere, bringing their own background to weave into the ever-expanding tapestry of our food landscape," notes Bir. "My hope is that the recipes here will pique not just your hunger, but your curiosity."

There's a lot to be curious about! Besides classic American fare such as Cheddar Beer Soup, Ritz-Crusted Walleye, and Peach Blueberry Cobbler, the book showcases an array of iconic Ohio cultures with dishes like Sauerkraut Balls, Polish Cucumber Salad, Hungarian Chicken Paprikás, Amish Date Pudding, and Potato and Cheddar Pierogi. You'll also find easy-to-follow recipes for the more exotic, from Filipino Chicken Adobo and Pawpaw Lassi to Shorbat Adas (red lentil soup) and Catalonian Crème Brûlée. The 100 recipes are complemented by 142 mouthwatering photographs by Melanie Tienter.

As Bir says, "Every restaurant, bed-and-breakfast, or diner that shared recipes for this book has its own story to tell." Now, home cooks everywhere can recreate those stories in their own kitchens and discover the aromas and flavors of the "many Ohios" that await in Tasting Ohio.  

Tasting Ohio (ISBN 13: 978-1-56037-690-3, $29.95, Farcountry Press, 2018) is available at local bookstores and gift shops or from Farcountry Press at 1.800.821.3874.  Check out Tasting Ohio on Amazon.com by clicking this text.

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Tasting Ohio: Favorite Recipes from the Buckeye State Title Information 

Title: Tasting Ohio: Favorite Recipes from the Buckeye State

Written by: Sara Bir

Photography by: Melanie Tienter

Release date: April 2018

Specs: 176 pages, 8.5" x 10", hardcover, 142 color photographs, index

ISBN 13: 978-1-56037-690-3

Price: $29.95