Armchair travel and cookery book in one volume. This title features the distinctive culinary traditions of 10 key regions of the USA. It contains authentic home recipes passed down through generations. Every key regional cuisine in America is covered in 10 chapters, each of which takes one city as its point of departure: New York, Boston, Chicago, Charleston, New Orleans, Miami, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Seattle, and Honolulu. Every city represented in the book will want to stock this book. Sidebars focus on regional star chefs, restaurants, food shops and markets, techniques, tools, ethnicities, and produce and farmers.