By Mike Hiller

Fort Worth restaurant critic and cookbook author June Naylor has teamed up with longtime friend and chef Grady Spears on another cookbook: Cooking the Cowboy Way.  It’s available now from major retailers, including .

June says each of the 10 chapters covers a different ranch or food place, and they traveled to Calgary, Alberta; Arizona; Florida; Kansas City, and all over Texas to create each of the chapters. In each, Grady teams up with local food people to explore (and write about) local flavor.

Here’s the book tour info:

Sept. 24 – 6:00 p.m.
West TX Book and Music Festival
Texas Cookbook Gala
Abilene, TX
www.abilenetx.com/APL/book_music_fest.html

Oct. 3 – 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Pinto Ranch
NorthPark Center
Dallas, TX 75225
www.pintoranch.com

Oct. 17 – 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
The Store in Lake Highlands
10233 E. Northwest Hwy
Dallas, TX 75238-4432
www.thestoreinlh.com

Nov. 6-8
Epcot International Food & Wine Festival
disneyworld.disney.go.com/parks/epcot/special-events/epcot-international-food-and-wine-festival

November 12 – 6:00 p.m.
Wildcatter Ranch
6062 Hwy. 16 South
Graham, Texas 76450
www.wildcatterranch.com