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The New California Cuisine: Great Recipes from the Los Angeles Times
The New California Cuisine Great Recipes from the Los Angeles Times Author:Rose Dosti (Editor) In the past ten years a new breed of California chefs have achieved worldwide fame for a trend-setting style of cooking. Light, imaginative, and nutritious, their recipes glorify the bounteous harvests of California and reflect the colorful ethnic mix to be found there. An influx of professional cooks from France, Italy, and Japan, a... more »nd an increase in the Mexican, Oriental, and Middle Eastern populations inspired many of the unusual new dishes. Restaurants—not without reason—have become tourist attractions that vie with the movie studios, while the top chefs have acquired international star status.
Readers of the Los Angeles Times have been following this exciting new cuisine in the newspaper’s food pages and restaurant reviews. Now, Rose Dosti, food staff writer for the Times, has gathered dozens of the best recipes from over forty of California’s outstanding chefs and their restaurants, plus some of the prized recipes from vineyard owners and local gastronomes, and had them tested in the Times' own test kitchen. The resulting collection of more than 300 recipes is illustrated with 100 color photographs of many of the artistically presented dishes, the dazzling raw materials that inspired them, and of the chefs and restaurants that created them.
This is the first cookbook to present the new style of California cooking in terms of its brilliant practitioners, and to offer their recipes kitchen-tested for the home cook who can now prepare these stellar dishes for family and friends. New California Cuisine should delight everyone who has an interest in good food and fine dining, as a book both to cook from and to browse through for pleasure and information.« less