Nestled in the sand on the Santa Monica coast, Shutters On The Beach is everyone’s favorite luxury seaside resort, serving up fresh and delicious food with style year-round. In The Summertime Anytime Cookbook, Dana Slatkin shares 130 irresistible recipes from her family’s celebrated hotel for any day or night at the beach. Whether it’s a scorching summer day or a foggy morning in early spring, Slatkin knows better than most that life at the beach truly revolves around the weather. So The Summertime Anytime Cookbook is cleverly divided into the chapters Sunny Days, Cloudy Days, Balmy Nights, Stormy Nights, Misty Mornings, and Beach Basics. Perfect rain or shine, the appealing, fuss-free dishes are Shutters favorites, including Plum Tomato Soup with Baby Grilled Cheese Sandwiches; Dungeness Crab Cakes with Avocado Tartar Sauce; Bull’s-Eye Eggs; and Yogurt Mousse with Honey-Poached Apricots.Along with recipes for colorful entr?es and side dishes, fresh picnic fare, simple sauces, and fabulous desserts, The Summertime Anytime Cook-book offers inventive style and entertaining ideas for casually elegant beach living, such as Five Wonderful Ways to Spend a Cloudy Day at the Beach, How to Make the Perfect Smoothie, and Six Uses for a Bucket of Sand. Slatkin also shares expert tips on creating over-the-top hotel hospitality, decorating with relaxed sophistication, and preparing homemade spa treatments.With simple, artful food for every day and night, and stunning color photographs, The Summertime Anytime Cookbook is your secret to bringing the best of the beach into your own home.

A self-taught chef and successful restaurateur shares more than one hundred of her signature tasty and healthful recipes, presenting a wide variety of dishes inspired by both Latin and Asian culinary traditions that include salads, soups, main courses, side dishes, desserts, drinks, salsas, and sauces. 20,000 first printing.

The chef-author of Jeremiah Tower Cooks shares reminiscences of his celebrated culinary career, love for the cooking arts, behind-the-scenes bedlam in the kitchen, lavish restaurants, and the 'soap opera' lifestyle of the business while honoring other kitchen greats such as James Beard and Alice Waters. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

The chef of two celebrated New York City restaurants presents a collection of some of his most popular recipes, in a volume that imparts his philosophies about fresh ingredients and sides while sharing the commentary of famous celebrity patrons. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Cindy Pawlcyn's favorite small plates—appetizers, soups, salads, and snacks—collected from her previously published books, with 10 new recipes from her restaurants.Cindy Pawlcyn's legions of fans have long made meals of her restaurants' sampler-size starters...read more

Product Description: Linda and Steve Bauer take us on a culinary journey throughout the state of California. A joy for foodies and history buffs alike, Recipes from Historic California takes a peek inside the colorful past of California's many historic restaurants and inns...read more

Product Description: Experience the Fresh, Vibrant Flavors of Wine CountryCalifornia’s wine country boasts a mild Mediterranean climate with cool, foggy mornings and warm, sunny afternoons. Early European settlers, recognizing familiar weather and sloping hillsides, transposed the best of their native landscapes into these new, fertile fields...read more

Shares recipes that feature seasonal ingredients, from asparagus and fresh peas to greens and winter squashes.

Product Description: Instead of bringing food to guests in a traditional restaurant setting, Jim Denevan brings diners to their food, creating what Alice Waters has called “the restaurant I always imagined.” His innovative organization, Outstanding in the Field, sets up dinner tables in fields, ranches, dairies, vineyards, and community gardens across the country for alfresco meals that truly reconnect us with the land and people that produce our food...read more

Product Description: In a cutting edge cookbook for the Internet generation, Google s legendary founding super-chef, Charlie Ayers, tells you everything you need to know about the newest nutrition buzzword: brainfood. He outlines the basics on how the right foods can transform your mind and body, and then teaches you how to stock your kitchen with the healthiest foods available...read more

A collection of recipes by one of the leading lights of contemporary American cookery features dishes that blend his signature rustic style with strong flavors and straightforward technique, including Grilled Chicken with JW Fries, Crispy Chicken and Goat Cheese Burritos, Red Pepper Pancakes with Corn Sauce and Smoked Salmon, and Pizza with Bacon, Scallions, Parmesan, and Tomatoes.

Product Description: Cookbook containing the top recipes from the kitchens and restaurants of Palm Springs, California

Product Description: This beloved cookbook is now available in a handsome paperback edition. Completely revised and updated with 45 all-new recipes, each delicious dish reflects acclaimed chef John Ash's commitment to sustainable agricultureand his love of fresh fruits and vegetables...read more

Inspired by the Napa Valley wines and earthy dishes from the popular northern California restaurant chain, an illustrated volume of seventy-five favorite recipes includes such options as Roasted Squash Soup with Sage, Crab Cakes with Avocado Salsa, and Bananas Foster Brioche Pudding.

A revised edition of the classic California cookbook presents a selection of nearly two hundred recipes that feature a simpler, healthier cuisine that emphasizes vibrant flavor, fresh food, and California's unique blend of various culinary traditions. Original. 17,500 first printing.

Product Description: This cookbook for kids offers a unique tool in America's battle with poor eating habits - fun. It encourages children to eat well by consuming squeezable recipes. It's really simple. Kids have fun squeezing tasty, nutritious sauces, dips and dressings over fruits and vegetables...read more

Product Description: Celebrating the colorful neighborhoods of San Francisco, this cookbook features recipes from over 100 of the Bay Area’s world-class restaurants. Noe you can eat in San Francisco style no matter where you are! Travel only as far as your kitchen to experience the world-renown cuisine of San Francisco...read more

Product Description: Ann Chandonnet brings us a rollicking history of gold rush food complete with hearty recipes ranging from sourdough flapjacks to stewed porcupine. From miners meals and home remedies to holiday fare, beverages, and housekeeping, Gold Rush Grub follows the trail of stampeders from Sutter's Mill in California to Alaska and the Klondike...read more

The author provides a culinary tour of California's wine country along with 120 original recipes, techniques, tips and historical information, featuring a creative combination of Mediterranean and Northern California cuisine in such dishes as Grilled Leg of Lamb with Lavender and Rosemary and Crispy Polenta Cakes with Wild Mushroom Ragout. Reprint.