Kansas Food and Cookbooks

July 2026 Adult Book List

Michael Pearce's Taste of the Kansas Outdoors Cookbook by Michael Pearce
Michael Pearce shares 53 recipes and meat-care tips for preparing Kansas game, fish, and foraged foods.
Biting Through the Skin by Nina Mukerjee Furstenau
This memoir and culinary nonfiction blends personal narrative, travel experiences, and family recipes, exploring Nina Mukerjee Furstenau’s Kansas upbringing and how food preserves identity and connects communities.
Hometown Appetites by Kelly Alexander; Cynthia Harris
Hometown Appetites is a biography of Kansas-born food writer Clementine Paddleford, who transformed American food journalism by celebrating regional cuisine and reaching millions of readers.
Teatime to Tailgates by Jane Marshall
This book celebrates Kansas State University’s rich culinary and community history, weaving together recipes and stories from students, faculty, staff, and alumni to show how food has been central to campus life since 1863.
Artfully Done by Friends of the Wichita Art Museum
Artfully Done: Food, Flowers & Joy Across Generations combines Kansas recipes and visual art to celebrate culinary and artistic traditions across generations.

Amy Barickman's Vintage Notions: an Inspiration Guide to Needlework, Cooking, Sewing, Fashion, and Fun, Amy Barickman
The Pizza Hut Story, Robert Spector

Baking with Friends by Sharon Davis; Charlene Patton; Coleen McIntyre (Illustrator)
Baking with Friends teaches 9 to12 year-olds to bake with fun, healthy recipes and illustrations.

Visit Your Public Library
Provides a directory of Kansas public libraries where you can find titles from this month's reading list or request a book through interlibrary loan.

Host a program featuring local cookbooks and recipe swap
Invite local K-State Research & Extension office to present a food safety or cooking program
Organize a community food drive

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