Baking Across America
A Vintage Recipe Road Trip
-
- $19.99
Publisher Description
Join B. Dylan Hollis, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Baking Yesteryear, on a cross-country culinary journey with 100 uniquely American recipes.
From the deserts of the Southwest to the shining Atlantic Coast, the USA is as sweet as it gets. In this tour de food, B. Dylan Hollis takes you on a delicious road trip to taste everything from the coffee-crazed creations of the Pacific Northwest to the larger-than-life sheet cakes of Texas.
You’ll be hitting the pavement in vintage style as you journey with Dylan through the culture capitals of America to savor the very best bakes the nation has to offer. His retro recipes span the decades from the 1900s to the 2000s and feature famous (and forgotten) desserts from every state.
With his signature wry humor, Dylan explores the US and uncovers the history of nostalgic local favorites, including Boston Cream Pie on the cobbled streets of Beantown, Beignets in the sultry heat of jazzy New Orleans, and Date Cream scooped up poolside in Palm Springs.
Baking Across America is the highly anticipated successor to Baking Yesteryear and delivers 100 wild, wacky, and wonderful recipes from every star-spangled corner of the good ol’ US of A.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
TikTok star Hollis's appealing follow-up to Baking Yesteryear offers 100 "darn-good" recipes from across the U.S. Hollis affects his trademark gee-whiz enthusiasm for quirky local delicacies like strawberry pretzel salad from Pennsylvania, which fills a crushed-pretzel crust with a mixture of Cool Whip, cream cheese, and strawberry gelatin powder; and Chicago's "Atomic Cake," which stacks banana, chocolate, and vanilla sponges. A jokey style permeates the recipe headnotes (Watergate was Nixon's "saucy bid to undermine the presidential election of 1972") and sidebars on cultural capitals occasionally feature awkward syntax (in New Orleans, "whispers and tales of a cryptic and occult past writhe just below perception"). Thankfully, the recipes themselves are more straightforward, even those for complex projects like povitica, a honey and walnut bread from Kansas. Hollis's culinary road trip unearths some relatively unknown gems, including a historic layer cake from Alabama that features in To Kill a Mockingbird and rolled cocoa-filled pastries sold along Route 65 in the Ozarks. Despite the title, many dishes are not baked at all, like New York's chilled Waldorf salad gelatin ring, Georgia hush puppies, and California "Mojave Nuggets," a confection made of coconut and almond. Fans of kitschy culinary nostalgia will happily go along for the ride.
