| Dining By Rail: The History and Recipes of America's Golden Age of Railroad Cuisine | 
 enlarge | Author: James D. Porterfield
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 358451
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7 x 1
ISBN: 0312187114
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.576
EAN: 9780312187118
ASIN: 0312187114
Publication Date: May 15, 1998
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The History and Recipes of America's Golden Age of Railroad Cuisine
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Dining By Rail September 24, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fantastic, entertaining book!! Loaded with history and recipes -- Who could ask for more??? Highly recommend.
Dining By Rail.........WOW! May 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great book! Wonderful back story of an era mostly gone. Recipes are particularly interesting and became the theme for a wonderful party. Research done by the author is staggering. Bravo!
 Comfort Food May 12, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fine addition to anyone's cookbook collection and a great gift for the
rail fan. Recipes are easy and they work! Don't expect to lose weight!
Great Food from the Dining Car November 26, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Really a fun book to have for the railroader with someone who loves to cook. Tons of fine recipies from railroads all over the country. SOME EXPERIENCE REQUIRED! I tried my hand at a dish, but it didn't turn out right despite following directions to the letter. Recently, Mom and I were successful. Her years of cooking experience handed down from Grandma paid off, because she noticed a missing step. Some basic preparation steps are left out becuase by the time a cook was assigned to the diner, he didn't need to see everything on paper. Since then, Mom and I have enjoyed many more weekend cooking classes with the dining car cookbook. Although many projects have turned out well, I'll always recall our first as my personal favorite: Western Pacific Rice Cream Pie. Good times!
Nostaligia food at its best July 27, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book "Dining by Rail" was purchased at the urging of a ten-year old son who is a rabid railfan. The book not only has a treasure trove of the most famous recipes from all the different rail lines, but it features a marvelous history of railroads from the point of view of the customer, the cooks, and others whose job it was to provide customer service. One also learns how the menus on the trains reflected the relations with the most important commercial customers of the railroad, an aspect nostalgic railfans don't always think about.
The book is well written and carefully researched. The pictures are evocative, and the recipes very easy to follow and recreate.
Altogether, this book is providing my son and me with a interesting and tasty railroad education!
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