A Taste of Virginia History
Price: $20.95

By Debbie Nunley and Karen Jane Elliott.

This book is a must for Virginia history lovers, cooks, and people who love to travel across Virginia. It features over 100 restaurants in Virginia, tracing the role each played in Virginia, and oftentimes, US history. Two or three delicious recipes are provided from each restaurant, tempting the inner chef in all of us! It has two indexes, one for the restaurants, and one for the recipes.

Recipes include: "Milk Chocolate Cheesecake" from The Homestead in Hot Springs;"Crab and Spinach Timbale" from the Inn at Little Washington; and "Summer Peach Soup" from the Manor House at Poplar Springs.

Of local interest to those in Tidewater are: Freemason Abbey Restaurant in Norfolk; Omar's Carriage House in Norfolk; The Smithfield Inn in Smithfield; Carrot Tree at the Cole Diggs House in Yorktown; the Boxwood Inn in Newport News; and in Williamsburg, The Kitchen at Powhatan Plantation, Gabriel Archer Tavern, The Old Chickahominy House, and the Colonial Williamsburg Taverns. Softcover, 294 pages.