Blue Ribbon Recipes

by Barbara Greenman

Join me and my guest, Mary Ann Lienhart Cross as we discuss Barbara Greenman's book "Blue Ribbon Recipes" on Dinner and a Book.

Fair food is more than just corn dogs, cotton candy, jams and cookies. Look within the pages of Blue Ribbon Recipes and you’ll find a delicious, down-home array of state and county fair contest winners from across the U.S.A. From the Iowa State Fair to the San Diego State Fair, from the Maui Onion Festival to the Warrens Cranberry Festival, first-rate home cooking can be found in abundance within this collection of state and county fair award-winning recipes. Blue Ribbon Recipes includes the best of these ribbon-winners from all fifty states and eighty state fairs, which means there’s something here for every person at your table. From appetizers to soups and sandwiches, from main dishes to bread, rolls and biscuits, from dips and dressings to every dessert imaginable, there’s a recipe to satisfy every craving and for every occasion in Blue Ribbon Recipes.

Original Air-Date: 4.11.2009