Quick Cooking with Pacific Flavors - Hardcover

Hugh Carpenter provides a wealth of practica l cooking advice; advance-preparation steps, menu & entertai ning suggestions, a glossary of Asian ingredients & a list o f basic pantry ingredients. The dazzling photography is prov ided by his wife. '

This is an American cookbook with Asian accents.
This coobbook is a complete revision of our 1990 cookbook, Chopstix (now out of print). Nearly all the text is new and over 50% of the recipes have been replaced with easier-to-prepare recipes. As with Pacific Flavors, our first cookbook, all the recipes were given a final "OK" by a group of home cooks who evaluated the recipes after I had perfected them. I describe Quick Cooking with Pacific Flavors as "an American cookbook with Asian accents." For example, you will find recipes for guacamole, cornbread, meatloaf, Caesar salad, gravlox, fried chicken, and many other American recipes whose flavor is modified by Asian seasonings such as ginger, chiles, lime, cilantro, and Asian bottled condiments. In addition, there are many wonderful Asian salad dressings, marinades, barbecue sauces, and sauce preparations to use for everyday salads, grilled meats and seafood, and quick pasta dishes. In addition, this book was nominated by the International Association of Culinary Professionals as the Most Beautiful Cookbook of the Year. As with our other cookbooks, there are many beautiful full-color food photographs taken by my wife, Teri Sandison, with each recipe placed on dishes made by America's top glass and ceramic artists. We hope you have lots of fun cooking these recipes for your family and friends - and that these recipes make you a cooking Hero! With best wishes - Hugh Carpenter