Book excerpt: From chuckwagon favorites to classic diner meals, Oklahoma's cooking is the best! In Best of the Best from Oklahoma Cookbook, 59 of the leading cookbooks from the Sooner State have been selected to contribute their most popular recipes. Good home cooking such as (Mickey) Mantle's Chicken Fried Steak, Cowboy Potato and Vegetable Bake, Philbrook's Italian Cream Cake, and Tortilla Wagon Wheels are just a sampling of the 400 or so recipes included in these pages. These recipes aren't just OK--they're the BEST! Best of the Best from Oklahoma is part of the acclaimed Best of the Best State Cookbook Series, continuing the tradition of preserving America's Food Heritage.