Vintage California Cuisine
Author: Mark Thompson
Publisher:
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780979551000
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Inside the California Food Revolution
Author: Joyce Goldstein
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2013-09-06
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0520956702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this authoritative and immensely readable insider’s account, celebrated cookbook author and former chef Joyce Goldstein traces the development of California cuisine from its formative years in the 1970s to 2000, when farm-to-table, foraging, and fusion cooking had become part of the national vocabulary. Interviews with almost two hundred chefs, purveyors, artisans, winemakers, and food writers bring to life an approach to cooking grounded in passion, bold innovation, and a dedication to "flavor first." Goldstein explains how the counterculture movement in the West gave rise to a restaurant culture characterized by open kitchens, women in leadership positions, and a surprising number of chefs and artisanal food producers who lacked formal training. The new cuisine challenged the conventional kitchen hierarchy and French dominance in fine dining, leading to a more egalitarian and informal food scene. In weaving Goldstein’s views on California food culture with profiles of those who played a part in its development—from Alice Waters to Bill Niman to Wolfgang Puck—Inside the California Food Revolution demonstrates that, while fresh produce and locally sourced ingredients are iconic in California, what transforms these elements into a unique cuisine is a distinctly Western culture of openness, creativity, and collaboration. Engagingly written and full of captivating anecdotes, this book shows how the inspirations that emerged in California went on to transform the experience of eating throughout the United States and the world.
The Cuisine of California
Author: Diane Rossen Worthington
Publisher:
Published: 1997-06
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFounded on the freshest possible ingredients and influenced by the vibrant culinary traditions of Thailand, Mexico, China, the Middle East, Japan, France, and Italy, California cuisine launched more than a revolutionary new style of cooking - it spawned an entirely new appreciation for food. In this book, Diane Rossen Worthington describes its essential basics. Of course you don't need to live on the West Coast to revel in these simple, healthful dishes. From Orange, Kiwi, and Jicama Salad with Lime Dressing to Scallops with Fresh Tomatoes, Herbs, and White Wine, here is a complete collection of impeccable favorites.
Southern California Cooking from the Cottage
Author: Jane Stern
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Published: 2004-09-06
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1418557900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecipes and photos from the beloved restaurant: “Perhaps America’s foremost experts on regional food.” —San Diego Magazine Southern California Cooking from The Cottage captures the romance, the relaxation, and the good life of one of Southern California’s most beloved restaurants. Included are the recipes that have made The Cottage a favorite for decades with breakfast items such as muffins, coffee cakes, Greek, Italian, and seafood omelets, Belgian waffles, and oatmeal pancakes. From the lunch and dinner menu there are light Southern California seafood and pasta dishes, signature soups, and salads, as well as traditional American classics. With color photos included, you can recreate this delicious dining experience on your own patio on a sunny summer day—or wherever and whenever you feel like it. Southern California Cooking from the Cottage is part of Jane and Michael Stern’s Roadfood cookbook series, which celebrates the finest regional restaurants in the United States.
California Dish
Author: Jeremiah Tower
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-06-15
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1451603665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWidely recognized as the godfather of modern American cooking and a mentor to such rising celebrity chefs as Mario Batali, Jeremiah Tower is one of the most influential cooks of the last thirty years. Now, the former chef and partner at Chez Panisse and the genius behind Stars San Francisco tells the story of his lifelong love affair with food -- an affair that helped to spark an international culinary revolution. Tower shares with wit and honesty the real dish on cooking, chefs, celebrities, and what really goes on in the kitchen. Above all, Tower rhapsodizes about food -- the meals choreographed like great ballets, the menus scored like concertos. No other book reveals more about the seeds sown in the seventies, the excesses of the eighties, and the self-congratulations of the nineties. No other chef/restaurateur who was there at the very beginning is better positioned than Jeremiah Tower to tell the story of the American culinary revolution.
Cuisine and Empire
Author: Rachel Laudan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2015-04-03
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 0520286316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world’s great cuisines—from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present—in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity of the culinary family tree, she shows how periodic seismic shifts in “culinary philosophy”—beliefs about health, the economy, politics, society and the gods—prompted the construction of new cuisines, a handful of which, chosen as the cuisines of empires, came to dominate the globe. Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. Laudan’s innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement.
Joy of Cooking
Author: Irma S. Rombauer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 896
ISBN-13: 0026045702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated cooking book with hundreds of recipes.
The Cuisine of California
Author: Diane Rossen Worthington
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2005-03-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780811849838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong considered the bible of California cuisine, Diane Rossen Worthington's classic cookbook is now reissued with an eye-catching new cover. With over 150,000 copies sold, The Cuisine of California remains as fresh and surprising, as simple and spirited as the cooking it extols. Appetizers such as Spicy Lemon Shrimp; soups such as luscious Fennel, Potato, and Leek; entrees such as herb-infused Roast Chicken Stuffed with Goat Cheese and Leeks; desserts such as a refreshing Strawberry Sorbethere are more than 200 recipes that are as at home on the family table as they are at a dinner party. Using time-honored techniques and unexpected (but accessible) ingredients, this beloved cookbook is a paragon of its class, bringing the delicious flavors of California into kitchens everywhere.
Encarnación’s Kitchen
Author: Encarnación Pinedo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2005-10-24
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0520246764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"It's a rare cookbook that is as pleasurable to think about as it is to cook from. But that's what Dan Strehl has accomplished with his elegant translation of Encarnación’s Kitchen, a book that provides a fascinating look at the life and cooking of the wealthy Californios in the final days of the rich Rancho culture of California."—Russ Parsons, author of How to Read a French Fry "At long last! It is with enormous pleasure that I greet Dan Strehl’s authoritative English translation, Encarnación’s Kitchen. I should like to have had the original Spanish edition as well, but I dream."—Karen Hess, author of The Carolina Rice Kitchen "Encarnación’s Kitchen is far more than a historical curiosity, or a mere kitchen fragment that sketches silhouettes of ingredients and techniques. The recipes of Encarnación Pinedo’s kitchen, brought alive and set in context by Dan Strehl (and Victor Valle’s lucid introduction), offer rich examples of how California’s Mexican culinary culture developed as it bumped into—and cross-pollinated with—young, multifarious America. These dishes lay bare the often overlooked reality that food can be more than a reflection of culture. Food, as Encarnación understood, can be a seductively delicious catalyst for social understanding, change, even rebellious protest."—Rick Bayless, author of Mexico One Plate at a Time
Los Angeles Times Cookbook
Author: Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2007-10-31
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1557090769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1902 to 1917, the Los Angeles Times sponsored cooking contests. As a result, they published a series of winning recipes. The recipes were local to Southern California, including "Old-Time California, Spanish and Mexican Dishes...Recipes of Famous Pioneer Spanish Settlers." With Hispanic influences, the book contains reciptes such as: Alligator Pear Salad, Chili Con Carne, Enchiladas, Spanish Rice, Frijoles, Albondigas, Chiles Rellenos and Tamale Pie. Much of the ingredients come from California. Listed as on of the one hundred best books on California cooking.
