Best Recipes from American Country Inns and Bed and Breakfasts


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The best crowd-pleasing recipes from widely acclaimed country inns and bed & breakfasts in the United States are collected in this unique cookbook and travel guide. More than 340 inns and 1,500 recipes are collected here, some from the finest chefs in America, while others represent the best in mouth-watering homestyle cooking. More than a cookbook, Best Recipes from American Country Inns and Bed & Breakfasts is organized alphabetically - state-by-state. It is a reliable guide to the inns themselves, including addresses, phone numbers, and a listing of activities available at each inn. There are two extensive indexes. One allows you to find the inns by city and state, and the other allows the reader to find any recipe or type of recipe quickly and easily. Kitty and Lucian Maynard have written two similar books, The American Country Inn and Bed & Breakfast Cookbook, Vol. I and Vol. II. These have been selections of Book-of-the-Month Club, the Better Homes and Gardens Book Club, and Family Bookshelf. The first book was featured on the back of Just Right cereal boxes. Reviews rave about the excellent, tasty recipes: "Everything we tried was terrific!" - Brunswick (Maine) Times Record "Many of these dishes are unique creations of the inn chefs and are not to be found elsewhere." - The Midwest Book Review "Chock full of mouthwatering recipes . . . a grand selection of entrees." - Levittown (Pennsylvania) Courier-Times




America's Best Bed and Breakfasts


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Fodor's Bed & Breakfast guides cover more that just the B&Bs, they also recommend great things to see and do, places to eat and shop, and more. The best vacation spots in the United States This guide covers B&Bs in the top travel destinations on and off the beaten path in all 50 states. Covers more than 1,600 handpicked B&Bs From a world-class 14-room San Francisco hotel with views of the Golden Gate Bridge to a yellow clapboard inn on a Maine island where you can watch windjammers sail by, this guide will tell you about the inns you won't want to miss. No inn can buy its way in Some B&B guidebooks only include inns that pay to be included. Inns are described by professional critics In some B&B guidebooks the innkeepers get to write their own reviews. All inns visited anew for each revision Detailed at-a-glance charts comparing inns' facilities, activities, and services All price ranges covered "The only unbiased guide we could find." -- "St. Louis Dispatch "Models for any B&B guide: user-friendly, well laid-out, with lengthy descriptions." -- "Travel Books Worldwide Honest...If the wallpaper is peeling, they say so." -- "Cosmopolitan







America's Best Tea Room Recipes


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Wouldn't you love to be able to make those delicious muffins from your favorite Bed & Breakfast? How about those buttery scones from that cute little Tea Room? Or that savory stew from the Lodge you stayed at last summer? Well, now you can have all those treats and more right in your own home! The America's Best series features 3 titles compiled of recipes gathered from Bed & Breakfasts, Tea Rooms and Lodges across the United States. The recipes have been carefully picked from hundreds of submissions to create a book filled with some of America's most delicious treats!




Bed & Breakfasts and Country Inns


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Provides information on the locations, facilities, services, decor, food, and rates of bed-and-breakfasts and country inns in the United States and Canada.




The Silver Palate Cookbook


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Enriched with full-color photographs in honor of its twenty-fifth anniversary, The Silver Palate Cookbook is the beloved classic that brings a new passion for food and entertaining into American homes. Its 350 flawlessly seasoned, stand-out dishes make every occasion special, and its recipes, featuring vibrant, pure ingredients, are a pleasure to cook. Brimming with kitchen wisdom, cooking tips, information about domestic and imported ingredients, menus, quotes, and lore, this timeless book feels as fresh and exciting as the day it was first published. Every reader will fall in love with cooking all over again.




Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective


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Indispensable information for away-from-home lodging, from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Travel Detective In Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective, America’s best-known and most trusted travel authority reveals the insider knowledge that can make every hotel stay as comfortable as (and sometimes even more cost-efficient than) home. With his incomparable access and nose for news, Peter Greenberg shares the secrets that people who know hotels—managers, maids, reservation clerks, bellhops, chefs, and maintenance guys—don’t want you to know about value, service, safety, security, and cleanliness. Tips include: • How to tell if your room is really clean • What never to order from room service • The real way to prevent hotel crime • How to beat excessive hotel phone charges • The exact rooms where headline-making events took place Drawn from the author’s experiences as both an investigative reporter and a constant traveler, Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective is an essential guide to everything from luxury resorts to motels, from airport hotels and bed-and-breakfasts to outrageous (and often secret) alternatives to hotels.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Running a Bed and Breakfast


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Provides advice on opening and running a successful bed and breakfast with information on such topics as drawing up a business plan, setting guest policies, getting listed in guidebooks, and developing a Web site.




America's Best Brews


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This book describes and rates more than 375 of the best craft beers, identifies who actually makes them, explains how beer is made, guides you in homebrewing, lists beer festivals, and reveals America's top 25 breweries.




Making Your Move to One of America's Best Small Towns


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For those looking to raise a family in a storybook American town, or a change of pace from hectic city life, this book is the answer.