The Dairy Hollow House Cookbook: Over 400 Recipes From America's Famed Country Inn

by Crescent Dragonwagon

"This is a delicious hodgepodge of cookery gleaned from friends, guests at the inn, and the fertile and accomplished minds of the two authors."

Genres: Cookbooks

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Crescent Dragonwagon is the daughter of the writers Charlotte Zolotow and the late Hollywood biographer Maurice Zolotow. She is the author of 40 published books, including cookbooks, children's books, and novels. With her late husband, Ned Shank, Crescent owned the award-winning Dairy Hollow House, a country inn and restaurant in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, for eighteen years. She teaches writing coast to coast and is the co-founder (with Ned) of the non-profit Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow.

Reviews

[Gswope · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love any book by Crescent Dragonwagon. This one includes over 400 recipes. Among my favorites are skillet cornbread, angel biscuits, hash brown quiche, garlic spaghetti. Recipes are all of the easy, down-home kind. What I love most is her narrative style. I feel as if I'm sitting acroos the table from her.

[Leslie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love her cookbooks because they are readable and full of stories..and they have delicious recipes. This one is probably my favorite of hers.

[Trish W. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Crescent Dragonwagon (née Ellen Zolotow) was the active owner/operator of a popular B&B & restaurant at the time of this book's publication back in 1992, along with being a published children's book author. Her folksy conversational style and frequent digressions into anecdotes might appeal to some readers who enjoy meandering; this reader found them increasingly distracting and tiresome. Because Zolotow ran a professional restaurant kitchen in later years of her B&B, the majority of the recipes reflect that mindset as well. For home cooks who might like a challenge and have a generous grocery budget to support it, perhaps you'll find a few interesting dishes to try. (Not saying the recipes are "bad", just that the majority of them are too "cheffy" : over-involved & equipment-heavy.)

NB: Her other cookbook, Soups & Breads, is just an extension of this one.

[Dianna]

Quickly browsed this one. Most recipes don't fit with my way of eating, but I saved one to try. Good, personable writing and nice b/w illustrations. Of the two, I much prefer the Soup and Bread Cookbook by the same author.