Random House New Releases - Cooking - American - California Style - Between May 21, 2012 and June 20, 2013.

The Asparagus Festival Cookbook by Glenda Hushaw

2013-01-02T00:30:00-05:00

The Asparagus Festival Cookbook
Written by Jan Moore, Barbara Hafly and Glenda Hushaw

This cookbook—inspired by the Asparagus Festival in Stockton, California—packs new prize-winning recipes plus past festival favorites into this scrumptiously inventive pocket-sized collection. Casual fans are destined to become ardent aficionados of this vitamin-rich, mineral-packed, high-fiber, low-sodium, distinctly flavorful, and amazingly versatile vegetable.

The Cheese Board: Collective Works by Cheese Board Colletive

2012-11-06T00:30:00-05:00

The Cheese Board: Collective Works Bread, Pastry, Cheese, Pizza
Written by Cheese Board Collective Staff
Edited by Cheese Board Colletive
Foreword by Alice Waters

The Cheese Board was there, a hole in the wall with a line out the door, before Chez Panisse was so much as a gleam in my eye. When the restaurant was conceived, I wanted it to be in North Berkeley so the Cheese Board would be nearby, because I knew I would be among friends. -Alice Waters, from the ForewordWhen a tiny cheese shop opened in Berkeley, California, in 1967, there was little hint of what the store-and the neighborhood-would grow into over the next 30 years. The Cheese Board became a collective a few years later and Chez Panisse opened across the street, giving birth to one of the country'¬?s most vibrant food neighborhoods, the epicenter of California'¬?s culinary revolution. Equal parts bakery, cheese store, pizzeria, and gathering place, the Cheese Board is a patchwork of the local community, where a passion for good food runs deep. THE CHEESE BOARD presents over 100 recipes for the store'¬?s classic breads, pastries, and pizzas, along with a history of the collective and an extensive cheese primer.

More than 150 classic recipes from one of the San Francisco Bay Area'¬?s most acclaimed culinary destinations.

Includes a history of the store, a cheese primer, and over 50 duotone photographs that capture the food and personality of the Cheese Board.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

My Beverly Hills Kitchen by Alex Hitz

2012-10-02T00:30:00-05:00

My Beverly Hills Kitchen Classic Southern Cooking with a French Twist
Written by Alex Hitz

From the restaurateur and television personality Alex Hitz comes this cookbook of more than 175 all-time favorite Southern dishes. In My Beverly Hills Kitchen, Hitz blends the home cooking of his mother’s Atlanta kitchen with lessons he learned from some of the world’s great chefs and hosts to come up with classic, satisfying comfort food.

These step-by-step recipes are so clear that anyone can do them. Hitz shows you how to prepare a meal for two or twenty and that quality is achievable on any budget. He reimagines best-loved dishes and adds that little something extra to make them more delicious than you ever dreamed possible. The twelve chapters include such signature recipes as Sweet Potato Vichyssoise, Cold Pea Soup with Mint, Scrambled Eggs with Caviar, Dorothy’s Baked Cheddar Grits, Millionaire’s Macaroni and Cheese, Salmon Pot Pie, Perfect Roast Tenderloin of Beef, Dorothy’s Fried Chicken, Salted Caramel Cake, Apple Pear Crumble, and Molten Chocolate Cake with Bourbon Whipped Cream. There are also recipes and stories from Hitz’s famous friends who were known for their simple but fantastic food—Bill Blass’s Sour Cream Soufflé, Nan Kempner’s Bacon Sticks, Connie Wald’s Penne with Vodka Sauce, and Betsy Bloomingdale’s Peach Ice Cream.

Hitz suggests perfect menus for every season and will show you how to make every day a special occasion. He shares his secrets about entertaining, ingredients, and cookware that guarantee the best results and will make a difference as you become a great chef and host on your own.

Comfort food has never been this irresistible—or easy.

My Beverly Hills Kitchen by Alex Hitz

2012-10-02T00:30:00-05:00

My Beverly Hills Kitchen Classic Southern Cooking with a French Twist
Written by Alex Hitz

Cooking Off the Clock by Elizabeth Falkner

2012-08-28T00:30:00-05:00

Cooking Off the Clock Recipes from My Downtime
Written by Elizabeth Falkner

A wide-ranging collection of recipes for home cooks from celebrated chef, restaurant owner, and pastry pioneer Elizabeth Falkner.

Peek inside the off-hours culinary mind of one of America’s top chefs with Cooking Off the Clock, an irreverent, eclectic, and downright delicious assemblage of reinvented classics and soon-to-be favorites. Celebrity chef and pastry pioneer Elizabeth Falkner brings her cooking inspiration to a range of satisfying full meals and quick snacks, and along the way gives pointers on how to think like a chef, even if you haven’t spent the day on the line cooking for crowds. You’ll find recipe ideas for any occasion: for a quiet night in, the Winter Squash Soup with Apple Butter Toast; for your next impromptu cocktail party, the Ham and Biscuit Sliders with Hot Pepper Jam; for the ultimate late-night snack, Sausage and Fennel Pizza; and to finish it off, the desserts that Elizabeth is known for, like Bourbon Pecan Pie Milkshake. With Falkner’s imaginative approach to classic comfort food and stories about her process for creating new recipes, Cooking Off the Clock will transform the way you cook.

Cooking Off the Clock by Elizabeth Falkner

2012-08-28T00:30:00-05:00

Cooking Off the Clock Recipes from My Downtime
Written by Elizabeth Falkner

Susan Feniger's Street Food by Liz Lachman

2012-07-17T00:30:00-05:00

Susan Feniger's Street Food Irresistibly Crispy, Creamy, Crunchy, Spicy, Sticky, Sweet Recipes
Written by Susan Feniger, Kajsa Alger and Liz Lachman

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 cooks, giving them a taste of these unexpected, tantalizing dishes.

On her globe-trotting adventures, with cooking and eating as the only shared language, Susan has forged friendships with rice farmers in Vietnam, women baking flatbread in Turkey, and nomadic cheesemakers in Mongolia. She’s become an expert on combining spices and ingredients to re-create authentic mind-blowing flavors back home. One bite of Artichokes with Lemon Za’atar Dipping Sauce confirms that they should never be eaten another way, and dinner should always be as enticing as crunchy and refreshing Saigon Chicken Salad, delicious Thai Drunken Shrimp with Rice Noodles, or sweet-savory Korean Glazed Short Ribs with Sesame and Asian Pear. Drinks, condiments, and sweets—such as indulgent and alluring Turkish Doughnuts with Rose Hip Jam—round out the recipe collection.

Susan’s personal travel stories and vacation snapshots inspire at every turn. Her expert tips on ingredients and easy substitutions, along with more than 100 color photographs, make Susan Feniger’s Street Food the perfect guide for home cooks looking to shake up their cooking repertoires with exciting new flavors.

Susan Feniger's Street Food by Liz Lachman

2012-07-17T00:30:00-05:00

Susan Feniger's Street Food Irresistibly Crispy, Creamy, Crunchy, Spicy, Sticky, Sweet Recipes
Written by Susan Feniger, Kajsa Alger and Liz Lachman

Random House New Releases - Cooking - American - California Style - Between May 21, 2012 and June 20, 2013.

The Asparagus Festival Cookbook by Glenda Hushaw

The Asparagus Festival Cookbook Written by Jan Moore, Barbara Hafly and Glenda Hushaw

The Cheese Board: Collective Works by Cheese Board Colletive

The Cheese Board: Collective Works Bread, Pastry, Cheese, PizzaWritten by Cheese Board Collective Staff Edited by Cheese Board Colletive Foreword by Alice Waters

My Beverly Hills Kitchen by Alex Hitz

My Beverly Hills Kitchen Classic Southern Cooking with a French TwistWritten by Alex Hitz

My Beverly Hills Kitchen by Alex Hitz

My Beverly Hills Kitchen Classic Southern Cooking with a French TwistWritten by Alex Hitz

Cooking Off the Clock by Elizabeth Falkner

Cooking Off the Clock Recipes from My DowntimeWritten by Elizabeth Falkner

Cooking Off the Clock by Elizabeth Falkner

Cooking Off the Clock Recipes from My DowntimeWritten by Elizabeth Falkner

Susan Feniger's Street Food by Liz Lachman

Susan Feniger's Street Food Irresistibly Crispy, Creamy, Crunchy, Spicy, Sticky, Sweet RecipesWritten by Susan Feniger, Kajsa Alger and Liz Lachman

Susan Feniger's Street Food by Liz Lachman

Susan Feniger's Street Food Irresistibly Crispy, Creamy, Crunchy, Spicy, Sticky, Sweet RecipesWritten by Susan Feniger, Kajsa Alger and Liz Lachman

The Asparagus Festival Cookbook
Written by Jan Moore, Barbara Hafly and Glenda Hushaw

The Cheese Board: Collective Works Bread, Pastry, Cheese, Pizza
Written by Cheese Board Collective Staff
Edited by Cheese Board Colletive
Foreword by Alice Waters

My Beverly Hills Kitchen Classic Southern Cooking with a French Twist
Written by Alex Hitz

My Beverly Hills Kitchen Classic Southern Cooking with a French Twist
Written by Alex Hitz

Cooking Off the Clock Recipes from My Downtime
Written by Elizabeth Falkner

Cooking Off the Clock Recipes from My Downtime
Written by Elizabeth Falkner

Susan Feniger's Street Food Irresistibly Crispy, Creamy, Crunchy, Spicy, Sticky, Sweet Recipes
Written by Susan Feniger, Kajsa Alger and Liz Lachman

Susan Feniger's Street Food Irresistibly Crispy, Creamy, Crunchy, Spicy, Sticky, Sweet Recipes
Written by Susan Feniger, Kajsa Alger and Liz Lachman