Eat Your Words: Chefs Feature Prominently At This Year's Texas Book Festival

This year's Texas Book Festival, which takes place October 22 and 23 at the State Capitol and is free to the public, is shaping up to be tastier than ever - with a plethora of great cookbooks to purchase and many celebrity authors slated to appear.

James Beard Award winner and Austin chef Tyson Cole will be cooking several dishes from Uchi: The Cookbook during his session, while A New Turn to the South: Southern Flavors Reinvented for Your Kitchen by Top Chef Masters favorite Hugh Acheson, The queen of butter's Paula Deen’s Southern Cooking Bible: The New Classic Guide to Delicious Dishes with More than 300 Recipes, and Good Eats 3: The Later Years by Alton Brown will all be featured guests at the fest this year.

Some more cookbooks and authors to watch out for at the festival include The Homesick Texan Cookbook by author and blogger Lisa Fain; The Casserole Queens Cookbook: Put Some Lovin' in Your Oven with 100 Easy One-Dish Recipes, written by Austin's own Casserole Queens Crystal Cook and Sandy Pollock; Sugar Baby: Confections, Candies, Cakes & Other Delicious Recipes for Cooking with Sugar by Gesine Bullock-Prado; the Big Ranch, Big City Cookbook by Austin restaurateur and author Louis Lambert; and The Splendid Table's How to Eat Weekends: New Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio's Award-Winning Food Show by Lynn Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift--to name a few.

Established in 1995 by First Lady Laura Bush, the Texas Book Festival has annually hosted more than 200 authors from Texas and the nation. The weekend includes readings, presentations, panel discussions, book signings, music and food in and around the capitol in Austin.

A festival schedule is slated to appear online very soon at the Texas Book Festival website.

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