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The Bottom Line

If you like to cook and want to replicate your favorite race track food at home, this is the book for you. A great gift to introduce someone to the sport, especially if they love to cook.



Pros

• Great recipes for your favorite race track food
• Recipes for all skill levels
• Interesting articles on each region and track

Cons

• Only 90 recipes may disappoint some
• History/culture text geared more toward beginners

Description

• Each chapter explores a different region of the country with history, culture, and cuisine.
• Recipes are favorites from race track restaurants plus home cooking from local horsepeople.
• Guys, if your wife or girlfriend doesn't understand your love of racing, try giving her this book.
• Guthrie uses this, her 8th cook book, to bring together her passions for Thoroughbreds and cooking.

Guide Review - Book Review: "Racing to the Table"

If you have ever dined on crab cakes at Pimlico, burgoo at Keeneland, or gumbo at the Fair Grounds and wished you could have that same food at home, here is your chance. While people expecting a straight cookbook may be disappointed to only find about 90 recipes included, racing fans will enjoy the rest of the text that connects the recipes together. Each chapter explores a different region of the country, giving historical and cultural information interwoven with recipes from the area tracks and horsepeople plus lots of photographs. The recipes vary from simple to quite complex, with something for any cooking skill level to tackle.

I tested a few of them, and I can say they all gave excellent results.

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