The Homesick Texan Cookbook

A James Beard award–winning blogger reveals recipes from her Texas upbringing in this collection of southwestern and Tex-mex classics—includes photos. When Lisa Fain, a seventh-generation Texan, moved to New York City, she missed the big sky, the bluebonnets in spring, Friday night football, and her family's farm. But most of all, she missed the foods she'd grown up with. After a fruitless search for tastes of Texas in New York City, Fain took matters into her own hands. She headed into the kitc