Dining at Great American Lodges
Recipes from Legendary Lodges
National Parks Lore and Wilderness
Landscape Art
Music by the Big Sky Ensemble
A getaway to 20 luxurious lodges in America’s wilderness! Home cooks will love these full-flavored recipes created by lodge chefs. The cookbook includes sensational food photos, a description of each lodge, masterpiece paintings, and quotes by Thoreau, John Muir, Teddy Roosevelt, and more.
On the companion music CD, instrumentalists of the Big Sky Ensemble blend bluegrass, country, western swing, slack key, and jazz. Inspired by traditional American songs, their music is a cross-country journey to enjoy while cooking, dining, and relaxing at home.
Cookbook
20 contributors , 224 pages
- Bar Harbor Inn, Bar Harbor, Maine
Acadia National Park - Lake Placid Lodge, Lake Placid, New York
- Glendorn, Bradford, PA
- The Swag, Waynesville, North Carolina
Great Smokey Mountains National Park - Canoe Bay, Chetek, Wisconsin
- Cibolo Creek Ranch, Shafter, Texas
Big Bend National Park - The Home Ranch, Clark, Colorado
- The Lodge at Vail, Vail, Colorado
- The Lake Yellowstone Hotel
Yellowstone National Park - Jenny Lake Lodge, Wyoming
Grand Teton National Park - Jackson Lake Lodge
Grand Teton National Park - Sundance, Sundance, Utah Sundance, Sundance, Utah
- Bryce Canyon Lodge, Utah
Bryce Canyon National Park - Zion Lodge, Utah
Zion National Park - Grand Canyon Lodge, Arizona
Grand Canyon National Park - El Tovar Hotel
Grand Canyon National Park - Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon
- The Ahwahnee Hotel, Califronia
Yosemite National Park - Furnace Creek Inn, California
Death Valley National Park - The Lodge at Koele, Lanai, Hawaii
Music CD
- Tennessee Waltz
- Red River Valley
- San Antonio Rose
- Rye Whiskey
- Crawdad
- Don’t Fence Me In
- Shenandoah
- Home on the Range
- Canadian Sunset
- Wildwood Flower
- Sweet Betsy from Pike
- La Paloma
- Delicado
- More Uhane
- Buckeye Jim
Big Sky Ensemble:
Jim Nichols, guitar; Bobby Black, pedal steel guitar; Chris Kranyak, violin; Rich Kuhns, accordion; Michael Bluestein, piano; Paul van Wageningen, drums; Peter Barshay, bass
The Artwork
- Audubon
- Frederic Church
- Winslow Homer
- Maynard Dixon
- Carl Rungius
- WPA Posters
Tennessee Waltz
Red River Valley
San Antonio Rose
Rye Whiskey
Crawdad
Don't Fence Me In
Shenandoah
Home on the Range
Canadian Sunset
Wildwood Flower
Sweet Betsy from Pike
La Paloma
Delicado
Moe Uhane
Buckeye Jim