The Northern California Best Places Cookbook PDF Download

"This cookbook is a passionate reflection of how a humble girl's food has grown into something more than simply cooking to survive. It is full of tasty recipes and beautiful images. It throws a small glimpse into a small part of the author's life and how her experience with the Culinary Institute of America has impacted her cooking and how one award winning chef changed her life. It contains some articles about food and wine pairings, olfactory senses, the California wine industry, teasers from the author's other cookbooks and more. There are starters, soups, salads, fish courses, meat courses, vegetarian courses, desserts and souffle recipes. All the food is comforting and simple, yet sublime and beautifully presented. One afternoon, being unproductive, staring at her book shelf, Johanna's eye fell on the blank white spine of her course manual from her two day course at the Culinary Institute of America from ten years ago. Her instructor, Chef John Ash, had changed her life by changing the way she cooks. She wanted to put this course manual into a beautiful book. When she asked Chef Ash's permission to put his recipes from her 2010 course into a book, his reply was, "Of course you can! I would be honored and would love to see how you describe the changes since 2010. Interesting that "chi-chi" "cheffy" food has suddenly changed and we need to feed ourselves with tasty, comforting food. Best wishes with this and let me know if I can help in any way." These words came from a 2-time James Beard award winner who has written numerous cookbooks, owns restaurants and teaches cooking all over the world and this has inspired Johanna to pay homage through her beautiful book to a mentor that helped her along the road towards her destiny"--