The latest from the Fales archives: this Black Hills Area Centennial cookbook, compiled on the occasion of Deadwood, South Dakota's hundred year anniversary. There's something wonderful about this spirit of making do under difficult conditions. That kind of imagination often leads to the development of delicious food. (Relevant here: Dan Barber's argument that great cuisine springs from agricultural hardships.) Other times, it just makes for fun recipe reading.
This, for instance, is a pretty ingenious idea.
And this cake completely captured my imagination.
Finally, here's a recipe for one of the most important foods in North American history: