Last Bite: 100 Simple Recipes from Kansas City's Best Chefs and Cooks

by Pete Dulin, Roy Inman (Photographer)

Last 100 Simple Recipes from Kansas City’s Best Chefs and Cooks features recipes from forty top local chefs, cooks, and James Beard Foundation award winners. Noted food writer Bonjwing Lee writes,“Pete Dulin had the foresight to capture this moment in Kansas City’s culinary history with the following collection of recipes from some of our city’s finest, contemporary talent. Together, they form a patchwork of flavors that represent Kansas City, here and now.” Roy Inman’s vivid color photographs are a showcase of these easy-to-prepare recipes previously published in the weekly “Last Bite” column in Star Magazine. A special section includes Inman’s original portraits and food writer Pete Dulin’s profiles of these talented chefs and cooks. Last Bite is an essential collection of recipes for cooks at home and a perfect gift for food lovers.

120 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2012

About the author

Driven by curiosity, exploration, and stories yet to be told, author Pete Dulin writes about food, drink, arts, and history.

Barons, Brewers, and Bootleggers: A Social History of Beer in Missouri (University of Missouri Press, Fall 2026) is my current work in progress.

Author of four books about food, drink, and Kansas City history. My most recent book is Expedition of Thirst: Exploring Breweries, Distilleries and Wineries Across Central Kansas and Missouri.

My other books include Kansas City Beer: A History of Brewing in the Heartland, KC Trail, and Last Bite: 100 Simple Recipes from Kansas City’s Best Chefs and Cooks.

Based in Kansas City, Missouri.

I was selected for the inaugural 2022 Critical Writing Initiative workshop sponsored by the Kansas Creative Arts and Industries Commission.

In 2023, I was awarded a North American Guild of Beer Writers’ Diversity in Beer Writing Grant.