Teatime Traditions and Madison County Cookbook

Our Cookbooks speak of the simple good life here in the Midwest.


These cookbook share a real uniqueness: in addition to the recipes and folk-art illustrations, stories and anecdotes by participants about events and sites of the area and different festivals blend throughout the book. Also, one of the highlights is an introduction and recipe by Georgia Waller, wife of James Waller, author of the best selling novel The Bridges of Madison County.

These books are now in their 12th printing with some 30,000 books already sold. These cookbooks contain close to 500 home recipes each from participants of Madison county Iowa.

These cookbooks are treasures in their own right revealing family secret recipe and traditions both holiday and everyday to its readers to allow them to sample traditions from down to earth Americans who have opened their families recipes up for the whole world to share in and of course enjoy.

The Madison County Cookbook
contains Georgia Waller's own family recipe for Sour
Cream Raisin Pie which is just one example of what you will find when you open
the pages to these incredible unique tastes of the heartland.

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607 W. Green St., Winterset, Iowa 50273