East Texas was settled by old southern American families from Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama and Georgia.  Sprinkle their newly imported culture and customs with a heavy dose of ancient Caddoan Indian, pure blood and Creole Spanish and French plus Italian, Irish, German and African Americans and you have a unique and delicious regional cuisine that is just now being discovered by cutting edge connoisseurs and gourmets.  It is every bit as exciting as Louisiana's French Creole cooking and, in many, ways more so.

Their smoked meats were superb, breads delicious and sweets heavenly.  Texas Historical Press brings these regional East Texas, Texas, and southern recipes to you.

We continue to carry on their tradition and let you relive their unique moments in history.  We offer the following books.  Texas residents will have 8.25% sales tax added to their orders.  Books are shipped free.

1. Pioneer Cookery of Early East Texas by H. Gordon Pettey - How they obtained and processed their foods.  Much history of a people can be learned through their foods.  Carefully researched and written fifty years ago (1950s) from personal interviews of very old citizens and early diaries putting the time back to the 1850s and beyond.  A must for cookbook collectors and historians.  This is a big 8½ by 11" book.  It not only contains hundreds of antique recipes, it has much written material about how foods were grown and processed in East Texas.  Includes many stories as told by the old timers.  .  $25.00    

2. Give Us This Day, Our Daily Bread - A very unique and unusual cookbook, researched and compiled by high school students, years ago, in a very rural community of deep East Texas.  The oldest members of the community were interviewed who, in turn, gave their mothers and fathers recipes for cooking, including wild game, and processing foods around the 1850s±, along with many stories they told about how it was.  Written directly as they said it in their quaint, old-time East Texas dialect- "It was nothin for mama to go outside and wring a chicken's neck before breakfast."  As authentic and real as it gets.  A must for all recipe book collectors and historians.  Comes with an 1839 map of Texas, showing East Texas, with its old roads leading in and out of it - there weren't many.  These early pioneers were a very isolated people.  $15.00.  .

3. Tejas Indian Cook Book - Rare East Texas Indian recipes collected from letters and diaries and from the descendents of these Indians, now in Oklahoma.  Much discussion on their methods of processing foods.  A real collector's item.  $20.00.