Resource 3: The United States Cookbook Author's Comments To season our study, we used The United States Cookbook for fabulous foods and fascinating facts from all 50 states. To cook up some extra enthusiasm, we referred to this book to give them a taste from that state. Some weeks, we would prepare the recipe from the state we were studying or we might wait, combine recipes from all of the states in a region, and make a whole meal to really sample the flavor of that part of the country. This was a great way to get our kids working in the kitchen!