Back Roads, Dead Cats and What's for Dinner by Jodi Marie Johnson

A cookbook dedicated to the Arizona Centennial, Back Roads, Dead Cats and What's for Dinner is a a riotous mishmash of reminisces and recipes. Back Roads is a very personal memoir penned by Flagstaff 's Jodi Marie Johnson chronicling "growing up in the olden days in Arizona and New Mexico." Her humorous tales of the rural Southwest make you wish you were part of her warm extended family. The recipes are home-cooked favorites.

Back Roads, Dead Cats and What's for Dinner: Growing Up in the Olden Days in Arizona and New Mexico
by Jodi Marie Johnson (Back Roads Publishing)

Appeals to: Arizona history lovers.

More information:  Books are available at Changing Hands bookstore and at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts.