Firefighters are famous for their food and it s no wonder since they cook their own meals seven days a week. All that practice, not to mention the peer pressure, makes for some of the best recipes in town, especially when that town is a culinary mecca like San Francisco. Firehouse Food introduces firehouse life, its brave denizens, …
Nancy Silverton’s Breads from the La Brea Bakery: Recipes for the Connoisseur
The owner and chef of L.A.’s famous and successful La Brea Bakery reveals her magical recipes, adapted for home bakers. Before the baking even begins, Silverton takes the reader through the wonder of bread alchemy, then introduces readers to a wide range of recipes which range from the whimsical to the sublime. 25 …
In this authoritative and immensely readable insider’s account, celebrated cookbook author and former chef Joyce Goldstein traces the development of California cuisine from its formative years in the 1970s to 2000, when farm-to-table, foraging, and fusion cooking had become part of the national vocabulary. Interviews with almost two hundred chefs, purveyors, artisans, winemakers, and food writers …
California Sol Food celebrates the sunny climate of San Diego with simple, refreshing recipes that perfectly reflect the casual, surf’s-up lifestyle of America’s Finest City. In addition to the 163 triple-tested recipes, this title offers fabulous menus, great cooking tips, and 25 full-page food photos.USA Book News Award: Winner, Cookbook Category (2005) Tabasco Community Cookbook Award (Regional Winners): …
The New Sonoma Cookbook™: Simple Recipes for a Healthy, More Delicious Way to Live
Delicious, satisfying, and wholesome food that evokes the sundrenched flavors of California: that’s why The Sonoma Diet is so popular. The New Sonoma Cookbook has always celebrated California’s seasonal cuisine-and this updated edition is better than ever!! It features new family meals, weight loss menus, food and wine pairings, “Cook Once, Eat Twice” recipes, and “No Cook” dishes …
California Kosher: Contemporary and Traditional Jewish Cuisine
You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy this unique collection of contemporary and traditional recipes. It reflects a merging of cuisines from all over the world. This volume, with its colorful cover, combines the dazzling variety of fresh foods available in California with observation of traditional Jewish dietary laws. There are descriptions of both American and Jewish …
Susan Feniger’s Street Food: Irresistibly Crispy, Creamy, Crunchy, Spicy, Sticky, Sweet Recipes
Over her thirty-year food career—from being one of the original Food Network stars and opening Border Grill to appearing on Top Chef Masters and creating STREET—celebrity chef Susan Feniger has continually found inspiration for her renowned cooking in street food carts around the world. In Susan Feniger’s Street Food, she shares 83 of her favorite recipes with home …
Farmsteads of the California Coast: With Recipes from the Harvest
Farmsteads of the California Coast introduces readers to a dozen diverse growers and their dynamic agricultural ventures in some of the most scenic farm locations in the country.From row crop farmers and shellfish harvesters to water buffalo ranchers and coffee growers, this visually-rich book celebrates the best of farmstead bounty, including ‘beyond organic’ greens, briny oysters, creamy goat …
The world-renowned Esalen Institute, located on the sacred cliffs above the ocean in Big Sur, California, is a place of peace and beauty, a place where people can contemplate, think, and discover. At the heart of Esalen is its kitchen, where food is made daily from the organic farm on its grounds. Recipes from Moroccan Lamb Stew to …
Best of the Best from California: Selected Recipes from California’s Favorite Cookbooks
For hundreds of years people have flocked to California in search of fame and fortune. From the gold rush trails to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, farms and vineyards to Silicon Valley, California cooking is truly a melting pot of flavors. Best of the Best from California preserves the unique taste of CaliforniaÂ’s food heritage with over …