Texas Cooks! offers a unique perspective on dining in the Lone Star State. This Texas tome is a combination cookbook, travel guide and history book. Each restaurant is located in an historic building and features the history of that edifice as well as a state map showing the seven regions of the state. Texas Cooks! is a sequel to the very popular Recipes from Historic Texas. Using Texas Cooks! as a travel guide, the very best and most interesting historic restaurants are easy to locate and enjoy. For the home cook the recipes from the chefs are interesting and easy to prepare. Many readers love recreating treasured dishes while others are simply inspired to create fine dishes from the privacy of their own home without having to travel. Texas is the largest state in size in the contiguous United States and with over 25 million residents. It boasts one of the largest populations in the country. Houston, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio and Dallas are great venues for this tome. Texas Cooks! is appealing to history buffs, realtors who want to give a gift to new home owners, Daughters of the American Revolution, political parties, educators, culinary buffs and those who simply love the Texas culture.