U.S. Regional Northwest Cooking

Oregon Lodge Cooking: Recipes & Memories from Summers at Lake Creek

Menus and stories flow through Oregon Lodge Cooking, with more than 65 recipes that evoke summertime memories of a well-loved Central Oregon resort. The book is a time capsule for the early days of Lake Creek Lodge and a reminder of simpler times. Recipes include Grilled Salmon with Homemade Tartar Sauce, Creamy Polenta, Cinnamon Sticky Buns, …

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PNW Veg: 100 Vegetable Recipes Inspired by the Local Bounty of the Pacific Northwest

Simply delicious, healthy “vegetable-forward” recipes are at the heart of this cookbook that celebrates the bounty of the Pacific Northwest. Increasingly, people are incorporating more vegetables and fruits into their daily diets, and this collection of 100 recipes provides satisfying, uncomplicated ideas for every meal of the day, including snacks and desserts. With dishes like Sweet Corn and …

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Gunflint Lodge Cookbook: Elegant Northwoods Dining

The Gunflint Lodge Cookbook is a “reader’s cookbook, ” organized by season with introductory essays by chef Ron Berg. Berg delights in adding fresh Minnesota ingredients to his Gunflint Blueberry Pie and his Wild Rice and Smoked Chicken Soup. There is an extensive section on fish cookery, including tips on frying, sauteing, and grilling, and recipes for a …

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Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove Cookbook

Now, from Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove Cookbook, you can relish in your own home the same superb meals found in Cedar Cove’s households. Charlotte Rhodes, one of the series’ most beloved characters, invites all fans of Cedar Cove, as well as anyone who enjoys classic home cooking, to join her in touring the town’s kitchens as she shares …

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Greg Atkinson’s In Season: Culinary Adventures of a Pacific Northwest Chef

Before revitalizing the menu at Canlis restaurant, Seattle chef Greg Atkinson learned an appreciation for local ingredients and gratifying meals on lovely San Juan Island, WA. In this reissued book of essays and recipes, Greg describes his appreciation the passage of the seasons, the joys of young family life, and, of course, local food. Atkinson is a gifted …

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Portland: A Food Biography (Big City Food Biographies)

The infant city called The Clearing was a bald patch amid a stuttering wood. The Clearing was no booming metropolis; no destination for gastrotourists; no career-changer for ardent chefs — just awkward, palsied steps toward Victorian gentility. In the decades before the remaining trees were scraped from the landscape, Portland’s wood was still a verdant breadbasket, overflowing with …

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Pure Flavor: 125 Fresh All-American Recipes from the Pacific Northwest

The creator of the award-winning Beecher’s Handmade Cheese in Seattle, Kurt Beecher Dammeier knows that great food begins with the highestquality ingredients prepared simply,so their natural, intense flavors shine through. In this, his first cookbook, you’ll discover that meals based on great raw materials require fewer ingredients,take less time to prepare, are healthier for you and your family, …

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Ray’s Boathouse: Seafood Secrets of the Pacific Northwest

It’s a local legend sitting just feet above the waters of Puget Sound on Seattle’s Shilshole Bay. The view is outstanding, the Café bustling and audacious, and the restaurant elegant with a down home attitude. Simply put, it’s one of the best cold-water seafood restaurants in the world, and the locals call it Ray’s. Ray’s Boathouse: Seafood …

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The Alaska Homegrown Cookbook: The Best Recipes from the Last Frontier

Compiled by the editors of Alaska Northwest Books, The Alaska Homegrown Cookbook contains the best recipes from dozens of Alaska Northwest cookbooks published over the past forty years. It includes appetizers, salads and soups, native fruits and vegetables, baking and desserts, beef, poultry and of course, seafood. In addition there is a section on …

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More from Macrina: New Favorites from Seattle’s Popular Neighborhood Bakery

Leslie Mackie opened Macrina Bakery & Café in Seattle in 1993 after working with Lydia Shire & Susan Regis in Boston and as head baker at Seattle’s Grand Central Bakery. She was among the first wave of Americans experimenting with recipes from European master bakers and a long, slow fermentation process. Mackie rediscovered the craft’s traditional, almost spiritual …

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