U.S. Regional California Cooking

Yummy Supper: 100 Fresh, Luscious & Honest Recipes from a Gluten-Free Omnivore

Every health-related culinary trend reaches a tipping point at which it must either evolve or become a cultural cliche; in the case of gluten-free eating, award-winning blogger Erin Scott is the new face of modern, fresh, gluten-free cooking and living. With influences ranging from a career in the high fashion and design industries to 25 years living in …

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The Artful Vegan: Fresh Flavors from the Millennium Restaurant

Since 1994, San Francisco’¬?s Millennium Restaurant has created a visionary gourmet experience, redefining vegan cuisine for the twenty-first century. Its nuanced seasonings, elegant presentations, and resourceful use of exotic ingredients elevates vegan food to the level of fine dining, while the landmark MILLENNIUM COOKBOOK proves you don’¬?t need meat and dairy to make delicious, satisfying gourmet dishes at …

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Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook

This timeless addition to the Chez Panisse paperback cookbook library assembles 120 of the restaurant’s best menus, including galas, festivals, and special occasion meals that have become such gustatory celebrations. A full range of menus is featured, from picnics to informal suppers. Line …

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LOST RESTAURANTS OF SACRAMENTO AND THEIR RECIPES (American Palate)

From saloons and tamale vendors to greasy spoons and neon-lit drive-ins, Sacramento natives Maryellen Burns and Keith Burns trace the trends of California’s capital city through 150 years of dining out. Share in the delicious anecdotes and recipes gathered from restaurant owners, employees and patrons as they recall Sacramento’s favorite places to eat–a century of Hangtown Fry served …

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The Tassajara Recipe Book

In a friendly and informal style, Ed Brown presents the recipes that have made the kitchen at the Tassajara Zen Center famous for more than thirty years. “Ordinary food for ordinary people” is the way Brown once described his approach, but there’s nothing ordinary about these culinary offerings. From appetizers to desserts, the over two hundred recipes use …

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Michael Chiarello’s Live Fire: 125 Recipes for Cooking Outdoors

He’s a Top Chef master, an Iron Chef, an Emmy Award-winning television host, a booked-solid restaurateur, and his cookbooks have sold half a million copies. And, at heart, Michael Chiarello is a master of cooking over fire. This passion and Michael’s great gifts for sharing his cooking philosophy (described by Publisher’s Weekly as “cooking is craft”) and his …

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40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering

Chez Panisse opened its doors in 1971. Founded by Alice Waters, the restaurant is rooted in her conviction that the best-tasting food is organic, locally grown, and harvested in ecologically sound ways by people who are taking care of the land for future generations.  The quest for such ingredients has always determined the restaurant’s cuisine, and, over the …

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Mission Street Food: Recipes and Ideas from an Improbable Restaurant

Mission Street Food is a restaurant. But it’s also a charitable organization, a taco truck, a burger stand, and a clubhouse for inventive cooks tucked inside an unassuming Chinese take-out place. In all its various incarnations, it upends traditional restaurant conventions, in search of moral and culinary satisfaction.Like Mission Street Food itself, this book is more than one …

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Vibrant Food: Celebrating the Ingredients, Recipes, and Colors of Each Season

The vivid colors of fresh produce inspire this artistic collection of whole foods recipes from the creator of the acclaimed blog The Year in Food.Kimberly Hasselbrink, photographer and creator of the acclaimed blog The Year in Food, invites you to look at ingredients differently and let their colors inspire you: the shocking fluorescent pink of a chard stem, …

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