CRESCENT DRAGONWAGON IS THE ALICE WATERS OF THE OZARKS . . .

turningout a nightly stream of creations wherein the best of country and city converge. -House Beautiful

Consistently rated one of America's ten best country inns, Dairy Hollow House in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is celebrated for a unique cuisine built on such traditional country ingredients as farm fresh chicken, wild mushrooms, greens, dried beans, and summer's berries. Now in over 200 recipes, chef and owner Crescent Dragonwagon shares all her soup-making, bread-baking, and salad-tossing wisdom in a cookbook that's as gutsy and distinctive as a steaming bowl of gumbo-in five variations. Welcome.

Along with being an innkeeper and chef, Crescent Dragonwagon is a cooking teacher, award-winning children's book writer, and author of four cookbooks including THE DAIRY HOLLOW HOUSE COOKBOOK. She and her husband, Neal Shank, live at the innkeeper's house at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

A SEASON OF SOUPS . . .

FALL

and#61623; Chicken Soup with Forest Mushrooms

and#61623; Mussel Soup Dublin

and#61623; Autumn Cream of Onion Soup with Brandy and Cider

and#61623; RosS and Apple Velvet Soup

WINTER

and#61623; Deep December Cream of Root Soup

and#61623; Wintery Chicken and Pasta Soup

and#61623; Hillbilly Many-Bean Soup

and#61623; Winter Borscht . la Vielle Russe

SPRING

and#61623; Asparagus and White Wine Soup

and#61623; Chicken and Rice Soup with Fresh Spring Vegetables

and#61623; Chilled Strawberry Soup with CrSme Fraiche

and#61623; Gingered Fresh Pea Soup with Snow Peas and Water Chestnuts

SUMMER

and#61623; Chilled Corn Chowder with Dill and Scallions

and#61623; Gazpacho Rosa

and#61623; Peach Soup with Almonds

and#61623; Augusta's Chilled Tomato Soup with Basil Cream

AND A BASKET OF BREADS

and#61623; Herbed Mezzaluna Bread

and#61623; Skillet-sizzled Buttermilk Cornbread

and#61623; Scotch Baps

and#61623; Slightly Fanatic Whole Grain Bread

and#61623; Custom-Made Biscuits As You Like Them

and#61623; Rosemary Focaccia

Noted children's book author, cookbook writer, and Dairy Hollow House innkeeper Crescent Dragonwagon presents 200 of the recipes that have made her Eureka Springs, Arkansas, inn a three-time winner of the Uncle Ben's Best Inn of the Year Award. 2-color illustrations throughout.

In every traveler's mind exists the perfect little out-of-the-way inn where the bread is always fresh-baked and the beds are downright heavenly. And where the soup is gratifying, gutsy, and downright gratifying.

Since 1981, Crescent Dragonwagon-noted children's book author, cookbook writer, and innkeeper-has owned that perfect little inn: Dairy Hollow House in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Distilling all her soup-making, bread-baking and salad-mixing wisdom into one book, Crescent Dragonwagon presents 200 of the recipes that have made her inn a many-time winner of the Uncle Ben's Best Inn of the Year Award. Here are the pedigreed soups: Winter Borscht . la Vielle Russe, Cuban Black Bean Soup. Soups with a twist: Fishysoisse, Gazpacho Rosa, New World Corn Chowder. Soups to warm you up: Deep December Cream of Root Soup. And soups to cool you down: Chilled Avocado Soup, Mexique Bay, Orange Blossom Special. Plus dozens of fabulous breads, from Slightly Fanatic Whole-Grain Dream Bread to Rosemary Foccacia Dairy Hollow, and salads, including Beet and Apple Salad on Mixed Greens. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books and Better Homes and Gardens Family Book Service. Over 267,000 copies in print.

Crescent Dragonwagon, the author of Passionate Vegetarianand Dairy Hollow House Soup andamp; Bread Cookbook, many childrenand#8217;s books, and two novels, was once innkeeper/chef at the acclaimed Dairy Hollow House in Eureka Spring, Arkansas. She now lives, writes, and bakes cornbread near Saxtons River, Vermont.

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