Cherry Home Companion: A Cherry Cookbook

The quintessential summer fruit is immortalized in a new book, Cherry Home Companion. It's a full-color compendium of cherry lore and wisdom, cherished memories and sensational recipes collected by veteran journalist Patty LaNoue Stearns from some of the country's finest chefs, food writers, home cooks and cherry purveyors. Readers will find more than 130 mouthwatering dishes--everything from appetizers to desserts--in this handsome hardcover cookbook, which is sweetened with reproductions of vintage cherry festival posters and postcards, cherry poems, cherry songs and lots of cherry chat. "Our goal was to include only fabulous, luscious recipes, nothing bland, boring or middle-of-the-road," says Stearns, a Detroit-area native now living in Traverse City, Michigan--cherry capital of the world. "There are so many new ways to include cherries in a menu, and I believe we have collected the best examples within the pages of Cherry Home Companion."