Arizona Highways Heritage Cookbook

The cooking fires of Arizona brightened Louise DeWald’s life over thirty years as she explored the culinary scene for the Sunday supplement ARIZONA and its predecessor, ARIZONA DAYS AND WAYS. She used a fitting byline, Ellen Cooke, her maiden name, although married to the magazine’s editor, Bud DeWald. “Going into a new kitchen every week, you discover all cooks are kinfolk,” she says. “Tastes remembered are a personal heritage generations share. Recipe collecting is a glimpse of history that never gets into school books Food under the four flags of Arizona pictures the backgrounds and lifestyles of many ethnic origins. Cooking, like love, must be shared. This isn’t a recipe collection. It is a history-of-life cookbook.” Read more