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Pizza California Style

Norman Kolpas

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The California Cook

Diane Rossen Worthington

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

The California Cook offers  vibrant, sunny, satisfying recipes that explore the  innovative and mouth-watering tastes of California  cuisine. In this book, Diane Worthington, author  of the 1983 bestselling cookbook, The  Cuisine of California, updates and further  develops her recipes in a simpler, healthier style  and offers a scrumptious spectrum of recipes for  robust appetizers, light entrees, inventive side  dishes, aromatic breads, and luscious desserts. And  since California is wine country, Anthony Dias  Blue suggests the perfect bottle to complement and  enhance the flavors of each meal.  

Recipes are cook-friendly,  easy-to-follow, and perfect for every occasion, offering  intriguing, imaginative ideas that can be dressed up  or down. The versatility of California cuisine  allows it to cater to quick lunches, colorful  picnics, casual buffets, informal dinners or elegant  feasts. Plenty of options, variations, shortcuts and  advice are also offered to encourage amateur cooks  and provide new ideas and inspiration for the  seasoned chef.

California Health Bar Drink Guide

Sally Ann Berk

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

create your own health bar 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This handy book has over 700 delicious healthy non-alcholic drinks, it has recipes suitable for both hot and cold weather, also each has a nutritional and calorie count. The ingredients are easy to obtain and instructions are simple to follow. A brief decription on the ingredients used is also included. One or my favourites is HOT PIE & COFFEE, with ingredients like apple cider, brown sugar, 1 tbsp lemon juice, cinnamon and nutmeg and then mix with hot black coffee, once tried, you'll be addicted to it.

Good resource 4 out of 5 stars.
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What I find particularly useful about the book is the sheer number of combinations and ideas. Lots of pictures with serving suggestions.

Editorial Review:

Nearly 750 nutritious, non-alcoholic recipes, 100 full-color photographs, and nutritional analysis of each drink.

Thursday Is Pot Luck: From Hearty Casseroles to Stir-Fries to Main-Course Salads (Everyday Cookbooks)

Time-Life Books

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Easy, Creative and Quick 5 out of 5 stars.
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The Everyday cookbook series have helped to make my dinners delicious but none more than Thursday is Pot-Luck. This book is jam packed with tons of creative one pot meal ideas in numerous ethnic backgrounds. The recipies are really wasy to follow and the ingredients needed are so common they can be made with little preparation (those frantic rushes to the supermarket when you don't have a specific ingredient) but the final product is anything but common!

The Best of California (The Best of ...)

Maria Cianci

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In The Best of California, writers Larry and Ann Walker serve up the Golden State on a silver platter, one whose cuisine is laden with its fresh produce, interpreted by the diverse tastes of its international population, and spiced by the energy and inventiveness of what has come to be known as the California spirit.

Perhaps no other place in the world has so successfully blended the best of so many culinary traditions, from French to Japanese, Italian to Mexican. Here are Asian-inspired salads and California-style sushi; tempting Mexicanin-influenced soups and salsas; Portuguese and Italian seafood stews and pastas; imaginative pizzas; and, of course, barbecues, grills, and the freshest possible vegetable and salad dishes.

With something for every palate, these recipes, together with beautiful color photographs, will serve as your personal culinary guide to California. And since they all call for the unwritten main ingredient of creativity, be sure to bring along a healthy dose of imagination to do a little California dreaming of your own.

New Connoisseurs' Handbook Of California Wines, The: Third Edition

Charles Olken

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All you'll ever need to know about California wines 4 out of 5 stars.
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Performing for California wines the service that Hugh Johnson's and Oz Clarke's pocket guides do for the wines of the world, this guide has become an institution. The current volume lists more than 800 wineries, with detailed information and tasting notes on the wines of each

The Best 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is the best and most complete guide to West Coast wines. Unfortunately, no new edition since 1995. On the other hand, nothing that has come out in the past 10 years can approach it. If they put out a new edition it would be a must have for anyone who buys CA or Oregon wines, not to mention wine geeks.

Editorial Review:

This essential guide to the wines and wineries of California--and the entire West Coast--has been freshly revised and expanded to include the latest available vintages, and details of many new wineries. The authors provide everything readers need to know, from the basics of winemaking to grape and wine varieties to harvest reports and reviews of more than 800 wineries.

Cooking Secrets: California (Cooking Secrets)

Kathleen DeVanna Fish

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Filled with 45 great chefs, restaurants and 225 kitchen-tested recipes that exemplify the best cooking in California.

California Herb Cookery: from the Ranch House Restaurant

Alan Hooker

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Alan Hooker and friend Beatrice Wood have produced a masterful record of fifty years of ground breaking California cuisine with over recipes covering all aspects of the great art of cooking with herbs. Hooker, known as the grandfather of California cuisine, taught Child, Puck, and Waters and made herbs popular in restaurant cooking. Liberal with butter, cream, and other tasty ingredients he cooked for the gourmet pallet in home kitchens. Woods drawings made when she was years old are saucy, irreverent, and naughty. They capture the atmosphere of the restaurant and love of good food.

California Desert Byways: Backcountry Drives for the Whole Family

Tony Huegel

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

one page wonders 4 out of 5 stars.
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This spiral-bound book has a great one-page description/one-page map format which makes it easy to use in the car. Huegel has travelled backroads both familiar and less-known and his descriptions are accurate if a little bland. At times I wish he had expanded his prose beyond the rigid one page format but the visitor with a sharp eye can find the sites and sights he omits. He adventures with his family and avoids rough roads like the Lippincott Mine Road in DVNP (a wise decision as drivers need experience here) concentrating on easier routes, although the Inyo Mountain trip definitely needs 4WD (its pretty tough in spots). He also includes many routes outside the familiar park system proving that you don't have to go to a designated scenic area to enjoy driving in the California desert.

Editorial Review:

The 50 unpaved adventure roads detailed in this handy, spiral-bound backcountry travel guide will take anyone who drives a 4wd sport-utility vehicle from the remote corners of Death Valley and Joshua Tree national parks to the intriguing landscapes of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and Mojave National Preserve. Traveling often little-known backcountry byways, you will drive to the crest of the highest mountain range in the Great Basin to view ancient bristlecone pines, gaze upon ancient Native American rock art and explore old ghost towns. The book features detailed directions, full-page maps for every route, backcountry driving how-to tips, photographs and information sources. With this easy-to-use guidebook and an SUV, footloose singles, families with children and vagabonding retirees can now explore the wilds of the California Desert comfortably and conveniently, all for the price of single tank of gas!

The New Cook's Tour of Sonoma: 150 Recipes and the Best of the Region's Food and Wine

Michele Anna Jordan

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Brings Sonoma County Alive! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Sonoma County, California is a very special place. From the Pacific ocean on the west to the ridgeline east of the Valley of the Moon, Sonoma County almost has it all.

Michele Anna Jordan helps bring this special place alive with this book. She's an extraordinary writer who infuses her stories and recipes with great commentary.

This particular cookbook is among my favorites -- because it's so much more than just a cookbook. The sidebar commentaries about places in Sonoma County help bring the area to life in my mind's eye.

Highly recommended!

Editorial Review:

This completely revised edition of Michele Anna Jordans much praised cookbook features 200 recipes, touring information, and cooks sources, making it the definitive food lovers guide to Americas Provence.

Sonoma County stretches from the fog-cooled coast of Northern California to the Mayacamas Mountains in the east; it hangs like a plump grape cluster west and northwest of its neighbor, Napa. Less than an hour away from San Francisco, this celebrated region has become synonymous with good taste, high-quality culinary ingredients, and the best food in the world. Originally published in 1990 by Addison-Wesley, The New Cooks Tour of Sonoma includes 200 recipes, extensive sections on wine and the burgeoning olive oil industry, and engaging portraits of the regions cheesemakers, dairymen and women, breadmakers, farmers, and chefs. With sixteen pages of spectacular color photographs, this gorgeous cookbook shows how the place, its people, and its food are inextricably linked.