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1. I love this cookbook. It has great recipes. The recipes don't call for ingredients that are difficult to purchase in our area. I recommend this book.

1 comments about Just Inn Time for Breakfast: A Cookbook from the Michigan Lake to Lake Bed and Breakfast Association.

1. This is a wonderful book filled with delicious recipes. They use common ingredients & most are fairly easy to make. Recipes include French toast, pancakes, cereals, fruits, beverages, desserts, muffins, & baked goods.

   Egg, meat & cheese dishes including soufflés, quiches, & casseroles are here as well. Each recipe has a description of the B&B it is from along with contact information An index also lists the inns by city.

   Some of my favorite recipes include the peach coffee cake, morning pizza, & broccoli bake. I also enjoyed the carrot cookies. My overnight guest loved the surprise French toast made with cream cheese & pecans.

   I really love the section in the back filled with household hints. I found these very useful as they really do help save time & money. They have also helped make guests at my at home feel more welcome.

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2 comments about Rogue River Rendezvous: A Gathering of Southern Oregon's Finest Recipes.

1. Different recipes; the place I go for something a little out of the ordinary. A number of the recipes such as Fresh Broccoli Salad w/ Custard Dressing and Tipsy Tenderloins have become old favorites. The only disappointment was an applesauce cake that obviously had the wrong measurements. If I could only have 6 cookbooks, this would be one of them!!



2. Wonderful recipes feature the local ingredients such as salmon, blackberries, blueberries and hazelnuts. This book won the regional cookbook award in 1992. Beautiful pictures of the Rogue river and illustrations and descriptions of favorite fly fishing flies such as Zane Grey's favorite Golden Demon adorn the book. Menus for any occasion will make your meals the best ever. The Pheasants with Chanterelles and the White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cheesecake are 2 of my favorites. Take your cooking to a new level.

5 comments about Have a Crumby Book: A Collection of Wit and Whimsy from Cincinnati's Favorite Bakery.

1. Diner: Buy This Crumby Book
   Busken Bakery celebrates its billboard campaigns in new book
   BY Anne Mitchell | Cincinnati CityBeat 11/14/2007
   A friend of mine told me that he'd been warned about being late for work so many times that, when he finally knew that this time might be the last, he stopped and got donuts. "Hey, if you're that late, it's better not to arrive empty-handed," he says. "At least the crowd will be on your side."
   Brian Busken, the self-proclaimed marketing weasel for Busken Bakeries, agrees. "How can you fire the guy who brought the donuts?"
   He hasn't used that for an ad tagline yet, but he could. Busken is famous not just for fantastic donuts but also for incredibly catchy billboard advertising. A new book, Have a Crumby Book, by local author John Eckberg, covers both subjects well. (It's been released by Clerisy Press in Walnut Hills.)
   It's amply illustrated with some of Busken's best branding campaigns, from the seasonal "Boosken" for Halloween and "O'Goodie" for St. Patrick's Day to the sublime "Bayou One," illustrated with a Mardi Gras King Cake.
   There are also the vaguely sexy, like the pink heart cookies with the tagline "We've been making love since 4 a.m." The company hasn't been censored by Sheriff Simon Leis yet, but it's pulled the plug on some of its own racy ideas, including some in the book that I'm not reprinting here. You have to buy one to find out!
   Brian doesn't claim these gems as his own. He freely admits that most of the great ideas come from Busken's ad agency, The Creative Group, whom the company has worked with for the past 10 years.
   While the ads made the smiley-face cookie an icon, the cookie had to hold up its half of the bargain by being darn good. And it is a great cookie, whether it's decorated as a shamrock, a pumpkin, a baseball or an unofficial ballot.
   Busken's doesn't quite have the influence of Iowa or New Hampshire, but its cookie polls are both tasty and astute.
   Brian's favorite Busken creation is the Mountain Cookie, the recipe for which is generously included in the book.
   "It's like a breakfast in a cookie, with walnuts, oats and raisins," he says. "In fact, there's a customer at our Hyde Park store who comes in every morning to get one with a coffee cup of hot water. And he's, like, 80 years old. So it's working for him."
   I ask Brian if there are regional favorites within Cincinnati -- products that sell better on the West Side than the East, for instance -- and he doesn't think so. He says that there are gender differences, though.
   "Men do not generally buy tea cookies," he says. "They eat tea cookies, but they don't buy them. Men buy bread and donuts. Women buy tea cookies."
   I ask him about Cincinnati's favorites and about his own.
   Donuts: cake or yeast? Cincinnati likes yeast, but Brian is a cake guy.
   Cake: chocolate or yellow? Cincinnati's overwhelming favorite is yellow, while Brian goes for chocolate.
   Bread: white or rye? Rye on both counts. Rye is in our German heritage.
   Pie: apple or pumpkin? Surprise! Pumpkin for both. I had to double check. Apple pie is not the people's choice?
   No, the baker has the numbers to prove it. It's pumpkin city.
   Another Cincinnati phenomenon is schnecken, and when Tom Thei of Virginia Bakery gave his secret schnecken recipe to the Buskens, the city flocked to their doors.
   They couldn't keep up with demand last year, but this year they'll be supplying my favorite buttery treat at all their stores, including their bakery counters in Northern Kentucky's Remke Markets. I had to do a little happy dance over this announcement. Yes!
   OK, so, about the book. I've actually written a corporate history before, and trust me: This one is more fun than that one (sorry, boss). It's a great primer on advertising, especially on branding, and it gives as much insight into the zeitgeist of Cincinnati as it does into the Busken family business.
   And there are recipes. Not that you'll really be tempted to bake your own Mountain Cookie when you can just roll into Remke's and pick one up with a side of schnecken!
   But if you have dyed-in-the-wool Cincinnatians -- or homesick ex-Cincinnatians -- on your holiday list, this is a good gift idea. Or you can get one for your boss if you're late.
   Just don't forget the donuts.



2. Subject: Surprise - from Harvey Schachter review in Globe and Mail, Canada's No. 1 national newspaper
   Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:06:10 -0400
   
   In Addition: "We've been making love since 4 a.m." is a catchy billboard slogan - and accurate, with Valentine's Day cookies baked from early morning at Cincinnati's Busken Bakery. The bakery has been capturing attention in the past 10 years with a series of clever, whimsical billboards that folks in the area look forward to. At Easter, a plate of cookies carries the message "Happy Eater;" at Halloween, creepy cookies are accompanied with a playful twist on Busken - Boosken - breaking the admonition of marketers not to play with your brand name. Not all the signs work, of course: A plate of cookies at Christmas with the message "Fruitcake Is So Last Century" didn't prod fans into diversifying their treats into cookies but instead led to a sellout of fruitcake. Writer John Eckberg tells the bakery's story, mostly letting pictures of the billboards do the work, in Have A Crumby Book (Clerisy, 152 pages, $19.95).



3. You don't have to have tasted that famously delicious cookies to enjoy this book, or read this book to enjoy the cookies; although each one does enhance the tast of the other. Having left the Cincinnati area, this is one of the best legacy's I have brought with me. It's not just about cookies and the ads, but a culture, a people, and memories. Of course those with less attached heart strings, and a highly developed sense of humor will also enjoy a uniform, long-running campaign of nothing more (or less) than the goodness of baked goods. The dry wit and punny-ness (I know that's unoriginal, but if the shoe fits) are delightful. It's a daily dose of sunshine. Sure to be a good conversation starter around any coffee table. (Product note: for the price, the book is a bit cheap: the inside margins are a bit cramped and you would think $18 should get you a hardcover, but then for a small production, you probably can't expect that much.) Still, it's nostalgic, for nostaligia's sake, and witty for the sake of humankind.



4. This book is truly delightful and insightful. I bought it as a gift and read it cover to cover before I wrapped it. It's as entertaining as it is educational, and is a must-read for anyone needing a burst of creative energy. Being in the PR/advertising field, it reminded me that my work is supposed to be *fun* and ideas that may seem quirky can be enormously successful sometimes. Have a Crumby Book is enlightening, energizing, and executed as well as Busken's ad campaigns. I've never lived in Cincinnati, have never seen one of these billboards, and have never been to the bakery, but still LOVED this book. It makes a great regional gift, but would also be appreciated and enjoyed by anyone with a sense of whimsy (or a penchant for pastry!)



5. What a deliciously delightful novelty of a book! WARNING: DO NOT read this book when you are hungry. I often found myself drooling on the pages of photographs of popular billboards depicting some of Busken Bakery's finest baked goods. Their appearance is absolutely mouthwatering! I do wish that I lived much closer to Cincinnati, now. I also wish that I could have had the pleasure of seeing some of these billboards in my travels; but alas, I have not.
   
   There is just enough history of the Busken Bakery and its founders to familiarize yourself with the chain and give you a little background on the baking industry. It was interesting and educational. For instance, I know with 100% certainty that I could never be a baker, since I learned that they get up to go to work at 2:00 a.m.
   
   But, again, the real treat here are the photos depicting the clever advertising slogans full of puns; and most importantly, the delectable baked goods themselves! I'm definitely ready for a trip to Cincinnati now. Oh, that won't be necessary--they have a website that offers shipping of their products.
   
   I'm glad I received this colorful book with the funny name as part of the Goodreads Early Reads program; since I don't think I would otherwise have discovered it. It was a pleasant, quick read and should be especially delightful to those lucky people who have grown up with the Busken Bakery as part of their life. I would like to thank the author, publisher and Goodreads for this treat.

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3 comments about Nutbread and Nostalgia.

1. I received this cookbook as a wedding shower gift in 1990. I've tried many of the recipes and have had wonder "feed" back. Now when I go to family get-togethers or company pot-lucks, people ask me to bring certain dishes from this book. I found the recipes to be easy, elegant and delicious. Note: My edition (1989)does not have calorie or nutritional break downs.



2. We still have our copy of "Nutbread and Nostalgia" from 1979 - the binding is ripped away, pages are rough on the edges, and my Mom still uses it all the time (she keeps it wrapped with a rubber band to keep it together).
   I am SO happy to see that it's still in print - we were going to try to photocopy the entire book and re-bind it, but now I can just purchase a brand new one for my Mom!
   There are probably about twelve recipes in here that became family favorites... I look forward to having a new copy for myself as well.



3. With four children my twin sister did a lot of cooking while they were all home. On our birthday, I would always give her a cookbook as we both like to "read" cookbooks and cook too. "Nutbread and Nostalgia" was purchased from a small kitchen store in Astoria, OR in 1987. I was having dinner with a friend at a nearby restaurant when I picked this gem of a cookbook out for my sister. I must have stood there for a long time looking at the various recipes (a sign that I am enthralled with the content). When it came to our birthday, I received a copy of the same book from my friend. What a treasure!
   
   This book is filled with sepia toned photographs from the turn of the century and includes menu ideas and recipes of "comfort" food that I am sure you will enjoy.