Prize Recipes from Great Restaurants: The Western States - Taschenbuch

The delicate art of cooking has fascinated lovers of fine food throughout the ages. As a result, cookbooks today abound, each with a special approach to the elusive goal of preparing superb, elegant, memorable dishes.Rare, however, is the cookbook that records for home use the exact recipes followed in some of the world's most famous kitchens, recipes on which the fame of those dining rooms is based.In this unique volume, James Stroman has assembled notable recipes used daily in more than a hundred of the finest restaurants in the Western United States, Western Canada, and Mexico. Through the cooperation of these great dining establishments, good cooks and would-be good cooks can now have at their fingertips the secrets of some of the world's most noted chefs.Enticing entrees, delectable vegetable dishes, savory sauces, and mouth-watering desserts are included -- comprising, in many cases, complete dinner menus. Many of the recipes in this volume are published here for the first time.