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n 1991 Col. Steve Bauer, USA-Ret., president, and [Congress], and she did sequels
penned At Ease in the White House, a mem- for [presidents] George H.W. Bush and George
oir about life as a military social aide for W. Bush. She said, “Why don’t we do a book
presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter. A revised on Texas restaurants in historic buildings?”
edition (Taylor Trade Publishing, 2004) added That’s the theme of it: traveling around, [fi nd-
presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. But ing] historic buildings, and then we’ve got the
Bauer eventually traded political dish recipes from the chefs.
for a tastier subject. In 2003, he and What’s your favorite part? To visit
his wife, Linda, a travel and food places and see things that … we’ve
writer, co-authored Recipes from never seen before. Of course, we get
Historic Texas (Taylor Trade to eat great stuff. After years of
Publishing, 2003) the fi rst in eating Army chow, this is quite
the Houston couple’s travel an improvement.
cookbook series. Current What’s next for Historic Reci-
editions include Louisiana pes? There are at least 10 more
and Colorado; California books we could do. … We’re
hits shelves in November. hoping to fi nd a producer to
With Linda as researcher turn this series into a show for
and Steve as photogra- the [Food Network] or TLC.
pher and driver, the cou- ... It would be great for a pro-
ple dine their way across America, ducer to go to French Lick Springs
sampling classics like bananas Foster [Resort, in Indiana] and talk about how
and Waldorf salad at restaurants at tomato juice was invented there.
historic U.S. sites. What has your research taught you?
Writing about the White House A lot of history [is] overlooked. It’s
seems logical, but why cookbooks? much more interesting to go to a restau-
[Linda wrote] The Great American rant in a [building] that has a place in
Sampler Cookbook (Taylor Trade American history than to go to Burger
Publishing, 2004) about the favorite King, Wendy’s, [or] McDonald’s.
recipes of President Reagan, [his] vice — Teresa Talerico
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