Growing up in Southern Arizona helped form Chef Ryan Clark's brand of cuisine. You take a young, three-time Tucson Iron Chef winner and surround him with the best the Southwest has to offer and voila! you get Modern Southwest Cooking. Innovative recipes include Prickly Pear Mojito, Yam and Ginger-Jalapeno Pave, California Halibut and Sauteed Succotash, Hanger Steak Chimichurri, and Habanero Creme Brulee.
Offers nouvelle cuisine versions of traditional dishes of the American Southwest, including appetizers, soups, salads, seafood, poultry, meat, desserts, pickles and preserves
Featuring recipes dazzling both in taste and preparation, this is a brilliant nouvelle cuisine interpretation of the foods of the American Southwest. 50 full-color photographs.
Drawing on thousands of years of foodways, Tucson cuisine blends the influences of Indigenous, Mexican, mission-era Mediterranean, and ranch-style cowboy food traditions. This book offers a food pilgrimage, where stories and recipes demonstrate why the desert city of Tucson became American’s first UNESCO City of Gastronomy. Both family supper tables and the city’s trendiest restaurants feature native desert plants and innovative dishes incorporating ancient agricultural staples. Award-winning writer Carolyn Niethammer deliciously shows how the Sonoran Desert’s first farmers grew tasty crops that continue to influence Tucson menus and how the arrival of Roman Catholic missionaries, Spanish soldiers, and Chinese farmers influenced what Tucsonans ate. White Sonora wheat, tepary beans, and criollo cattle steaks make Tucson’s cuisine unique. In A Desert Feast, you’ll see pictures of kids learning to grow food at school, and you’ll meet the farmers, small-scale food entrepreneurs, and chefs who are dedicated to growing and using heritage foods. It’s fair to say, “Tucson tastes like nowhere else.”
In her first cookbook, chef and restaurateur Donna Nordin brings together 85 recipes for the food that has earned her national acclaim and repeatedly landed Café Terra Cotta on lists of America's best restaurants. Donna's passion for spice has long been the guiding principle of her restaurant, and her flavorful, innovative CONTEMPORARY SOUTHWESTERN cooking has kept diners coming back again and again. While all her dishes dazzle the palate, a subtle Garlic Custard and smooth Avocado Vichyssoise are as much a part of her repertoire as the fiery punch of Fried Jalapeño Ravioli. Donna's signature style carries over into the dessert course with a tequila-laced chocolate Arizona Princess Cake, just one of many sophisticated studies in flavor.
Everything you need to know in one place-it's the whole enchilada! The food editors at Rio Nuevo Publishers handpicked more than 125 recipes that showcase the most delicious dishes in Southwestern cuisine. From traditional standbys to modern classics, this book is for anyone who loves the flavors, aromas, and zesty foods of the region. Arranged by ingredients, this user-friendly cookbook will be your guide to exploring the culinary delights that have been perfected over thousands of years. Savor a refreshing gazpacho. Blast your taste buds with spicy chiles. Learn how to make the perfect tamale. Indulge in rich dulce de leche. Spice up your life with The Essential Southwest Cookbook. The only hard part will be deciding what to make first! Book jacket.
"Mouthwatering . . . this book's a treat for eye and palate." --Metropolitan Home magazine "Nobody makes a tamale quite like Sedler." --Ruth Reichl Popular features of southwestern and Mexican cooking, tamales--little packages of corn masa dough--are quickly becoming one of America's favorite wrapped foods thanks to the genius of these three chefs. Tamales are inexpensive, easy to prepare, and highly versatile. Best of all, they can be made with all types of fillings and in limitless styles. Try these tempting variations: * Roasted Potato, Garlic, and Sun-Dried Tomato Tamales * Asparagus and Hollandaise Tamales * Caribbean Jerk Shrimp Tamales * Lobster Newburg Tamales * Smoked Salmon Tamales with Horseradish Crema * Arroz con Pollo Tamales * Chicken Tamales with Mole Poblano * Coriander-Cured Beef Tamales with Barbecue-Onion Marmalade * Lamb Tamales with Mint, Black Beans, and Blackened Tomato and Mint Salsa * Mom's Apple Pie tamales * Chocolate Bread Pudding Tamales * And more than 100 other recipes * After tasting these tantalizing recipes, you'll agree it's true that good things do come in small packages.
This 1904 book evokes the sights, smells, and tastes of Kentucky in the 1900s. Most importantly, the book was groundbreaking, over one hundred years ago, in its celebration of the vital role Black women played in building and sustaining the tradition of Southern cooking and Southern hospitality.