Cooking Lighthouse Style: Favorite Recipes from Coast to Coast

In a past life I may have lived in a lighthouse or a tower, because my dream is to live in a tower type building with windows all around the top level. When I think of a lighthouse, I have rarely thought about the actual life of the people living at the lighthouse although I'm always dreaming about living in one. They look so isolated and lonely, but this book brings out an entirely new perspective. Recently I have been viewing documentaries on the subject of lighthouse restoration and this is an excellent companion to this new interest that seems to be calling to me. I have been dreaming about running away to a lighthouse and cooking delicious meals. This book is quite the inspiration and recipes like Ginger Bread Pancakes or Coffee Cake create atmosphere and a longing to eat pancakes by the sea. One of the lighthouses comes complete with resident ghosts, another looks like a quaint little stone house with an added light at the top. The Granite Island Lighthouse is absolutely delightful and now the light has been automated as is the case in most lighthouses in modern life. There is a double lighthouse in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey that looks like a castle or at least a fortress. It is probably not surprising that lighthouse cooks had a lot of time to cook, so recipes for making homemade potato salad and split pea soup seem reminiscent of times when cooking was unrushed and pleasurable. Other delicious recipes include: Shrimp Omelet Chicken Fried Steak The Chili Recipe - won two chili cook-offs Ragout of Beef with Cranberries Lighthouse Cookies Death by Chocolate Cake Salt Water Taffy Key Lime Bars This book made me nostalgic as if I am longing for simpler times and more time to make foods born of the bounty of the sea and surrounding lands. Information about B & Bs in Maine and stories about the lighthouses are a bonus. Each recipe is accompanied by a story and that makes this book memorable and collectible. ~The Rebecca Review Dreams of writing reviews by the sea...

Cooking Lighthouse Style is a treasured collection of North American lighthouses with associated recipes, either traditional, historic, or contemporary. Featuring black and white photos of each of the lighthouses (some of which no longer exist), and a brief historical sketch, each recipe encapsulates an essence of that particular lighthouse keeper's daily life. In addition to the unique recipe collection, there is an introduction which covers more of the history of North American lighthouses, including sections on organization, construction, lamps, lenses and lights, fog signals, flashing lights, and daily routines. In an impressive bibliography on lighthouses is also included on page 13.