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New cookbook from BBQ family

So many people have asked the Bosley family for the recipes from their restaurant over the last 42 years that family member Patrick Bosley finally decided to write his own cookbook and include a few of them in it.

Titled "Family Favorites from Moonlite, Recipes that Founded a Kentucky Tradition," the latest edition of his cookbook captures the essence of the Bosley Family`s cooking, and went on sale June 26.

It has already sold 200 copies during its first week of sales at the Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn, with another 248 in the following three weeks. Additional sales are currently averaging 5-10 copies per day, without a major bookstore chain (up four times from an earlier edition). Amazon now carries the book and Bosley is attempting to convince national bookstores to carry it as well.

"These are traditional family recipes that we use," Bosley added. "Many can be found in the restaurant. Instead of a `how to open your own Moonlite` recipe book we wanted to capture the cooking tradition and style of food found at the Moonlite as well as give some of its history."