Missouri Food
Culture
Savor Missouri : river hill country food and wine
Experience Missouri in world-class and down-home eateries, find specialty farms, cheese makers, breweries and relaxing wineries. More than a travel guide, Savor Missouri is packed with fifty-plus recipes gathered along the way from restaurant chefs, farmers, winemakers and more. Don't miss the fun of eating and sipping local in Missouri!
Food in Missouri : a cultural stew
Corn, squash, and beans from the Native Americans; barbecue sauces from the Spanish; potatoes and sausages from the Germans: Missouri's foods include a bountiful variety of ingredients. In “Food in Missouri: A Cultural Stew,” Madeline Matson takes readers on an enticing journey through the history of Missouri food.
Kansas City : a food biography
While some cities owe their existence to lumber or oil, turpentine or steel, Kansas City owes its existence to food. From its earliest days, Kansas City was in the business of provisioning pioneers and traders headed west. “Kansas City: A Food Biography” explores in fascinating detail how a frontier town on the edge of wilderness grew into a major metropolis, one famous for not only great cuisine but for a crossroads hospitality that continues to define it.
Shop like a chef : a food lover's guide to St. Louis neighborhoods
From South City to the North Side, from Frontenac to Clayton, and from Creve Coeur to University City, this guide explores the independent grocers, ethnic markets, and specialty food stores of greater St. Louis. Residents and tourists alike will see the city in a completely new and utterly unique light with this guide that helps them expand their culinary horizons while at the same time saving money and supporting local businesses and farmers.
Garden/Forage
Best garden plants for Missouri The saying “stop and smell the roses” applies for this title. It won’t help you grow much to eat, but it is a quick user friendly guide to ornamental annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, and other beautiful plants that grow great in Missouri.
The Missouri gardener's companion
A thorough and detailed guide to gardening in Missouri, information about native plants, soil, weather, insects, planning a garden plot, and other questions you didn’t know you had.
Missouri's wild mushrooms
Morel season is just around the corner, but this guide will help you find mushrooms all year round too. Always be careful and do your research before you consume any foraged mushrooms.
Mushrooms of the Midwest
Another great mushroom guide. This title is also available through our e-book service Overdrive. Carry it right along with you on your phone during your next hike for an easy to use guide to mushroom hunting.
Cooking
The titles really say it all here. Browse for recipes from local restaurants you know and love, guides to upping your BBQ game to Kansas City standards, and everything in between.
The Kansas City Barbeque Society cookbook
Restaurant recipes of the Ozarks
What's cooking : Springfield-Greene County Library Staff Association cookbook
The Route 66 St. Louis cookbook
Cooking wild in Missouri : savoring the Show-Me state's game, fish, nuts, fruits and mushrooms
Additional Resources
Take the first step in getting your garden going with a visit to the Library’s Heirloom Seed Library at the Library Station and Midtown Carnegie branches of the Library. Find info about the Seed Library here.
Learn more about one of Missouri's most important agricultural exports, black walnuts, with this special program from Ozark Innovators.
Read about Old Fashioned Country Cooking and Country Kitchens in our Local History & Geneaology Department's online Ozarks periodicals.
Visit the Missouri Department of Conservation’s website for their easy to use page dedicated to wild Missouri edibles. Sorted by type with quality photos and detailed information, this guide will help you find what you’re looking for or tell what you’re looking at.
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