Favorite Recipes From a Treasury of
Country Inns and Lodges

Lucille Carloftis
This book contains a remarkable collection of America’s history reflected through its inns, with a favorite recipe from each. Whether you choose to go East or West or some place in between, you will enjoy a fantastic journey through these pages as Lucille Carloftis describes the highlights. The author says that she enjoys old architecture and unusual places, and many of these inns were started in the 1700s and early 1800s. Not surprisingly, a number of them are listed in the National Registry of Historic Places. Carloftis graduated cum laude from Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Kentucky. A past member of the Governor’s Executive Board on Tourism, she makes her home in Livingston, Kentucky, south of Lexington.
Many unique details are included in the diverse and interesting bits of history about these establishments. The Red Lion Inn is proud to be in one of Norman Rockwell’s well-known Christmas scenes. Some of their famous guests were: Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Grover Cleveland, and William McKinley, as well as writers Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Cullen Bryant, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Notables who stayed at The Golden Lamb Inn in Lebanon, Ohio, included Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S. Grant, Henry Clay and others. Established in 1869, Mohonk Mountain House has expanded over the years into a rambling beautiful building, one-eighth of a mile long with seven stories of polished woodwork. Notables who have enjoyed this unspoiled resort include naturalist John Burroughs, industrialist Andrew Carnegie, and four Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, William H. Taft, and Chester A. Arthur.
You could spend a month in New England and sleep in a different inn every night. The northeast states with the most inns are Vermont (seventeen), New York (fifteen), Massachusetts (fourteen), Maine and New Hampshire (eleven each). The city with the most inns is Cape May, New Jersey, with six.
Then, of course, there’s the fabulous food. Just look through these pages and read some of the mouthwatering recipes. There are 238 inns in this book and each contributed one or more of their specialties.

Favorite Recipes from a Treasury of Country Inns and Lodges by Lucille Carloftis; $19.95; ISBN 1-57072-076-2; 256 pp.; trade paper. Available immediately.