At the Table with LBJ and Lady Bird: History, Humor, and True Texas Recipes

Welcome to the table! This is a love story about an ambassador and two Texans. Not any ol’ ambassador or any ol’ Texans. He was Lyndon Baines Johnson, and she was Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as Lady Bird Johnson. The ambassador is food. Food connects us. Food is culture and memory. We all have favorite recipes that we share with people we love. Lady Bird collected recipes her family loved, a lot of them exclusive to Texas cookin’. Two copies of each of her favorite recipes were always...