Recipe Weekend:: Fair Foods: The Most Popular and Offbeat Recipes from America's State & County Fairs by George Geary

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With fair season cancelled  for the rest of this year, chef and author, George Geary helps your family enjoy the food of county fairs without leaving your house.

Synopsis:

The summer season is a time for ice cream, summer camp and state and county fairs.  But this summer will be different with fairs cancelled due to COVID 19.  But that doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy the fun foods we love to eat served up at the fair.  

In his best-selling cookbook, Fair Foods: The Most Popular and Offbeat Recipes from America’s State and County Fairs, award-winning chef, best-selling author, and renowned educator George Geary celebrates the fun, delicious, strange and wonderful foods sold at state and county fairs.  Since we can’t go to the fair, George brings the fair to you with two of the most popular and iconic fair food recipes. 

Geary’s Fair Foods cookbook highlights not only the new culinary “classics” at state and county fairs, but also longstanding favorites such as:

-    Maple and Bacon Doughnuts 

-    Triple Cheeseburger Doughnuts

-    Cheesecake on a Stick

-    Corn Dogs

-    Fried Pickles

-    Chocolate-Encased Bacon

-    Fried Coca-Cola®

-    Deep-Fried Oreos®

-    Mock Fried Ice Cream

-    Grilled Pork Chops on a Stick

-    Firehouse Chili with Peppers
-    Spicy Peanut Butter and Jelly Cheeseburgers
-    Black and White Cookies
-    Egg Creams

Create your own local fair or summer camp experience this summer in your own backyard with two of the most popular and delicious fair food recipes

Review:

OH MY! ALL your fair favorites are here! And many are SO SO SO easy to make, you'll wonder why you hadn't figured it out before!

Your family, especially the kids, will ADORE this book and may even take it over for their own cooking and Summer fun! A little supervision might be necessary (such as for the fried food), but generally, the recipes are not hard at all! You might even find yourselves wondering about using some of the recipes for History units, like the fried turkey legs and kettle corn! the photos alone will make you gain 15 pounds, but it's Summer, live a little!

This is a great book for Summer fun, fair styled parties and even simple cooking lessons, and we LOVE it and your family will too!

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About the Author:

George Geary is an award-winning chef, best-selling author, and renowned educator. A former pastry chef for the Walt Disney Company, Geary is a Certified Culinary Professional, and was recently chosen as the Culinary Educator of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. He is perhaps best known for creating all of the cheesecakes for The Golden Girls and other top-rated television programs. Geary has worked as a critic and/or judge for ABC’s The Taste with Anthony Bourdain, The American Baking Competition with Jeff Foxworthy, Hell's Kitchen, Supermarket Superstar, and many other popular television shows. He also teaches cooking classes aboard Holland America Lines.

For over thirty years, Geary has been a culinary contest judge for major food manufacturers such as Canola Producers, Veg-All, Hormel Foods, the Hershey Company, Knott’s Berry Farm Foods, Ghirardelli Chocolate, Fleischmann’s Yeast, the San Diego Union Tribune, ABC News, and many more. From 1982 to 2010, George was the culinary coordinator of the Los Angeles County Fair.

Besides writing, George owns a culinary tour company where he takes students on culinary adventures of France and major cities of the country. George teaches in over 120 schools world wide. George can be seen on local and national morning news programs. Currently George is the Resident Chef on San Diego Living on the CW Network.