The Route 66 Cookbook

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Summary: My search for good food along America's most famous highway.
Review: I began research on The Route 66 Cookbook in 1990 after hearing an interview with Buster Burris from Roy's Cafe in Amboy, CA. I was fascinated with his story and felt sure that other owners of one-of-a-kind eateries all along Route 66 would have their own unique memories and stories to share. People all along 66 were wonderful! Their recipes and experiences were fitted together somewhat like a patchwork quilt to make a wonderful book of memories. I feel very fortunate to have met so many highway legands and help save their stories.

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Summary: More than a cookbook
Review: This book has some really great recipes from a time past. This book has wonderful dinner fare. Super recipes for cakes, pies, and chili. If you are looking for book that has recipes from the 30s through the 60s, while you yearn for yester year. This is the book to get!

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Summary: Great book for midwest recipes
Review: This book has some really great recipes from a time past. This book has wonderful dinner fare. Super recipes for cakes, pies, and chili. If you are looking for book that has recipes from the 30s through the 60s, while you yearn for yester year. This is the book to get!

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Summary: A Route 66 Traveler
Review: This book is the best source for information on restaurants along Route 66 today. It also, includes many, many historical eating places along America's most famous highway. Some are already gone but memories remain. The book is filled with pictures, stories, 1st person memories and over 200 recipes from restaurants , greasy spoons, diners, and one of a kind eateries all the way from Chicago to New York. It is an invaluable guide for those traveling and for those who have memories of trips down Route 66 beginning in the 30s and 40s and continuing today. Every town offers a unique piece of history.

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Summary: Not Very Practical
Review: While it does give mouth watering descriptions of dishes served at historic restaraunts, it entices the reader to want to dine at them and not cook. Most of the recipes call for portions that would feed a barracks. While this is certainly understandable for the eateries mentioned in the cookbook, it makes for frustrating conversions into family size portions for the home kitchen.
However, most of the chili recipes can be frozen and are the best you will come across. Not to mention the pies are sinfully good! Ultimately best used as an interesting bit pop-culture history and not as functional cookbook.

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Summary: More than a cookbook
Review: Yes, it has great recipes. But it also has wonderful information on Route 66 itself. I purchased this book at a restaurant giftshop on Route 66 in Gallop, NM. I read it cover to cover, as I would a novel. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys cooking, Route 66, or just reading about either!