Pacific Rim Cooking

The Hali’imaile General Store Cookbook: Home Cooking from Maui

Set on a pineapple plantation in up-country Maui, the Hali’imaile General Store has lured travelers for over a decade with its down-home, island-style cooking. Critics and diners rave about chef Beverly Gannon’s rustic, hearty fare, and the restaurant is a fixture on “Best of Maui” lists. THE HALI’IMAILE GENERAL STORE COOKBOOK enables readers to bring the spirit of …

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Lucky Rice: Stories and Recipes from Night Markets, Feasts, and Family Tables

O, The Oprah Magazine’s Cookbook of the MonthYahoo! Food’s Cookbook of the WeekIn Lucky Rice, Danielle Chang, founder of the festival of the same name—which brings night markets, grand feasts, and dumpling-making sessions to America’s biggest cities—feeds our obsession for innovative Asian cuisine through 100 recipes inspired by a range of cultures. Here, comfort foods marry ancient traditions with …

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Best of the Best from Hawaii: Selected Recipes from Hawaii’s Favorite Cookbooks (Best of the Best State Cookbook)

Invite the spirit of aloha into your kitchen with the greatest collection of Hawaiian recipes ever. This cookbook will introduce you to native dishes such as Huli Huli Chicken and Coconut Macadamia Nut Crisps. Scattered amonth the recipes are fascinating facts and photos that capture Hawai’i’s unique history and culture. Over 300 favorite recipes from sixty-three of Hawai’i’s …

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7000 Islands: A Food Portrait of the Philippines

Despite the Philippines’ location right in the middle of South East Asia, most people know very little about the country, and even less about the cuisine. For Filipino’s, food is more than a pleasurable pursuit – it is the cultural language of the Philippines. Filipino’s use food to apologize, woo a woman, ask a favor, or say thank …

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The Adobo Road Cookbook: A Filipino Food Journey-From Food Blog, to Food Truck, and Beyond [Filipino Cookbook, 99 Recipes]

The road to great Filipino food begins and ends at home. But the journey along the way introduces a combination of flavors and textures from around the world. In The Adobo Road Cookbook, Marvin Gapultos demonstrates that delicious Filipino food can be prepared anywhere–from Manila to Los Angeles and everywhere in between.As a food blogger-turned-gourmet food trucker, Marvin …

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Trader Vic’s Tiki Party!: Cocktails and Food to Share with Friends

The tiki volcano is erupting all over again, and now Trader Vic’s, the legendary purveyor of Polynesian food, drinks, and fantasy, wants to help us bring it all home. Step behind the bar and into the kitchen at Trader Vic’s and learn how to create the kind of tiki magic that made “the Trader” famous. It’s all here: …

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Smuggler’s Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki

Cast aside your cares and worries. Make yourself a Mai Tai, put your favorite exotica record on the hi-fi, and prepare to lose yourself in the fantastical world of tiki, one of the most alluring—and often misunderstood—movements in American cultural history. Martin and Rebecca Cate, founders and owners of Smuggler’s Cove (the most acclaimed tiki bar of the …

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The Adventures of Fat Rice: Recipes from the Chicago Restaurant Inspired by Macau

With 100 recipes, this is the first book to explore the vibrant food culture of Macau—an east-meets-west melting pot of Chinese, Portuguese, Malaysian, and Indian foodways—as seen through the lens of the cult favorite Chicago restaurant, Fat Rice.    An hour’s ferry ride from Hong Kong, on the banks of the Pearl River in China, lies Macau—a modern, cosmopolitan …

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