"Today's adventurous cook can find a treasure in the Southwest: a book that is a culinary, literary, and artistic gold mine. Savoring the Southwest is produced by the volunteers of the Roswell Symphony Orchestra Guild, Roswell, New Mexico." As Printed in February 1988 Issue of Good Housekeeping magazine.

This all volunteer effort benefiting the Roswell Symphony is an outstanding book to be savored and enjoyed for years to come. The recipes are wonderful examples of Southwestern cuisine at its best, both gourmet and everyday fare. The art work is provocative and unique to the Southwest, featuring some of todays finest working Southwestern artists. The UFO section (Ungourmet and Unusual Food Offerings) is done with tongue in cheek. Recipes for "Twilight Zone Pinto Bean Fudge", "Crash Site Chicken Chowder" and "The Great Cover Up Barbeque Sauce" are not only delicious but fun and amusing. Dion Crosby, former Executive Director of the UFO Museum wrote the forward for this section presenting data on the "1947 Roswell Incident".

An abundance of bean, grain and rice recipes (try the Black Bean Torta), inventive ways with fresh vegetables and pastas with a southwestern twist as well as different and unusual meat recipes including game and ostrich are all wonderful and original.

In my opinion, this is one of the best community cookbooks to be published in a long time; one everyone can enjoy, cook from, and just read for pleasure.

This is an excellent cookbook, full of delicious and easy recipes. It has become my very favorite. Great for gifts.

This must be the BEST Junior League Cookbook around. It is beautiful, with wonderful Southwestern illustrations. It's layout is unique and easy to use with great tips and hints. All the recipes were thoroughly tested by local families. But the best part of all is the great Southwestern (Mexican) recipes that are easy to follow - no weird ingredients unless reasonable substitutes are listed. And they are absolutely delicious. This is a cut above. It sounds like I'm in Junior League, but I'm not - I just LOVE the cookbook. I found it here because I want to send one to a friend in another part of the country. It's a real favorite of mine.

I stumbled across this book in the tiny library in Casa Grande, Arizona, during one of the roughest times in my life. Ms. Coleman's strength, vibrant images of the Southwest, and willingness to get out there and struggle to find a new self, were so inspiring and comforting for me.

This should be a "coming of age book" for every woman in that spectacular time in her life. It also needs to be shared with daughters.

I was working on the Pima Reservation at the time, and the author's descriptions of the mountains and the majestic landscape truly captured the stark beauty that is so captivating. One gentleman I worked with was disabled, but even with the intellect of a seven year old he could, with a box of crayons, reproduce the deep shadows and myriad colors that she so lovingly painted with words.

The book is a very quick read, but definitely a "keeper."

I purchased this book several years ago from the Jr League of Albuquerque. I am now ordering one for my daughter. It has lots of great regional dishes from New Mexico and lots of other great dishes as well. I collect cook books and this is a great one.

If you're looking for a New Mexican - Southwestern cookbook that is simple, authentic and downright delicious, then this book is for you. Adela Amador has done a superb job of compiling a collection of unpretentious recipes that are easy to prepare and elegant in their simplicity. She divides the book into seasons and provides wonderful recipes for New Mexican classics such as Green Chile Stew, Fajitas, Sopaipillas and Bizcohitos. In addition she includes some other wonderful recipes such as Cranberry Pecan Pie and Chile Pork Roast. Along with the recipes, she includes an anthology of delightful stories which chronicle her life growing up in New Mexico. It is a cookbook that you will actually want to read from cover to cover - I did. I also plan to buy several copies to give as holiday gifts this year. All I can say is - buy this book, you'll be glad you did!

Although Roasalie died several years ago in her late 90's, she was still an active gardener. She was only sorry she couldn't do a new book and add lisianthus.

Focuses on early Anglo American views of the desert Southwest, and the destructiveness which threatens to destroy the landscape as it originally existed. Uses literature to show how attitudes have changed, have come to support the sustenance of the desert rather than its destructive transformation. But is there still time? Winner, Border Regional Library Association's 1998 Southwest Book Award.

We do a lot of southwestern cooking, and over the past ten years or so this has been the cookbook we come back to again and again. This book collects recipes from both well-known chefs (such as Mark Miller of Coyote Cafe) and regional home cooks. It has a lot of traditional southwestern (and southern) recipes, and also some more modern treatments that you would find in more innovative restaurants around Dallas, Sante Fe, or Scottsdale. The recipes are generally well written. They range from easy to moderate in difficulty. Some of the pictures of the food are wonderful.