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Pacific Northwest Wining and Dining: The People, Places, Food, and Drink of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia

Braiden Rex-Johnson

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Pacific Northwest Wining and Dining 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

To counter the damp and dreary days of winter I surround myself with distractions that promise better days to come. At the top of my pile is Braiden Rex-Johnson's Pacific Northwest Wining and Dining. Just looking at the cover of this love letter to NW cuisine warms me. I imagine myself dining al fresco on the patio of this restaurant or a myriad of others. Then I pour over the interior pages, like a gardener pouring over a seed catalogue in winter. I indulge in the descriptions of familiar restaurants and wineries as well as intriguing new ones. I plan our next excursion into Eastern Washington or the Willamette Valley or the always promising Vancouver area, while noting the recipes from these areas that we want to make today and the wines we will want to serve with them. I smile at the quotes from favorite and unfamiliar chefs and feel as though I now know something of what makes them who they are. And then I remember another friend who I want to share this book with and I'm back online to order it. What a perfectly luscious way to wile away the winter days.

Editorial Review:

A beautiful cookbook and guide to the Pacific Northwest's vibrant wine and culinary scene

Blessed with abundant seafood, wonderful produce, and bountiful vineyards, the Pacific Northwest has spawned a unique culinary culture. In this dazzling cookbook, Braiden Rex-Johnson takes us along as she visits the region's most accomplished chefs and winemakers, showcasing the dishes and wines that have made the Pacific Northwest a gastronomic mecca. Brimming with stories and lore, illustrated with 186 gorgeous color photos, and featuring 113 recipes and wine pairings, Pacific Northwest Wining and Dining brilliantly brings to life this region's special culinary character.

A Montana Table: Recipes from Chico Hot Springs Resort

Seabring Davis

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For more than 100 years Chico Hot Springs Lodge, nestled below Emigrant Peak in Montana's Paradise Valley, has enticed visitors from far and near with its exquisite service and fine dining. Most folks come for the natural hot water pools, but it's Chico's rustic charm and unpretentious glamour that draw visitors again and again.
The restaurant at Chico has earned a reputation for excellence with its classic and sophisticated fare--exquisite appetizers such as smoked trout and baked brie with huckleberry sauce, a variety of salads freshly picked from Chico's large garden and hot spring greenhouse, numerous entrees including choice cuts of Montana beef and bison, outrageous desserts culminating in their famous Flaming Orange, and an extensive hand-picked wine list.
This cookbook reveals all the favorites (more than 100 recipes) and provides home cooks with the detailed information and tips to reproduce Chico meals from a simple dinner to an extraordinary picnic, barbecue, or wine cellar party. Filled with color food photographs and historic lodge photographs and historical tidbits, this book displays a visual feast of this getaway on the Yellowstone River.

The New Alaska Cookbook: Recipes from the Last Frontier's Best Chefs

Kim Severson, Glenn Denkler

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Great, Humorous Helpful Cook Book 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Severson & Denkler have done a great job offering delicious, do-able, interesting recipes and delivering them in an entertaining style. One doesn't have to be in Alaska to appreciate or use these recipes.

Fabulous recipes 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I bought this cookbook while I was in Ketchikan. It has fabulous recipes that showcase the freshness of AK wildlife, seafood and berries. Wonderful!!!

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In a state where weather, geography, and even the palate of the population can pose a serious challenge in the kitchen, Alaska's best chefs keep a big bottle of creativity within arm's reach. Combine this creative juice with the state's wondrous natural bounty and the result is the new Alaskan cuisine--a sophisticated, regional food of the North. With an emphasis on fresh ingredients and culinary style, this is the first cookbook to gather recipes from Alaska's best chefs in one exciting cookbook. From the fat diver scallops of Kodiak Island to the prized salmon from the Copper River, here are 120 recipes that will conjure up the wonder of the Alaskan experience for home cooks everywhere.

Tom's Big Dinners: Big-Time Home Cooking for Family and Friends

Tom Douglas

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Douglas grew up in a big family where his mother and grandmother served big dinners every night of the week. Today, he's one of the country's hottest chefs, known not only for making Pacific Northwest cuisine and wine a centerpiece of American dining but also for hosting sensational big dinner parties at home. With his wife, Jackie Cross, Douglas takes an equally innovative approach to cookbooks, sharing menus and memories in an out-of-this-world collection.

Drawn from special meals with family members, friends, vintners, and fellow restaurant owners, Tom's Big Dinners brings together thirteen of his favorite feasts, with no-nonsense recipes that make it easy to cook like a restaurant chef without ever leaving home.

The menus range in style from the refined Wine Cellar Dinner, with recipes for Goat Cheese Fondue, Vine-Roasted Squab with Syrah Jam, and Chocolate Crêpes, to the relaxing Screen Door Barbecue, featuring Pit-Roasted Pork Spareribs, Down-Home Collard Greens, and Hard Watermelon Lemonade, and the festive Pop Pop's Winter Solstice, starting with Pop Pop's Perfect Martini and Caramelized Fennel Tart, followed by Creamy Seafood Chowder and Parsley Scones.

The Pike Place Market Menu and Puget Sound Crab Feed showcase classic Seattle-style dishes, while Tom's extravagant Chinese Feast incorporates the Asian influence prevalent in Pacific Rim cooking.

In their energetic and warmly inviting book, Tom and Jackie take the hassle out of first-rate entertaining. Suggestions for do-ahead preparation appear in each chapter, along with wine pairings for each course.

A celebration in itself, Tom's Big Dinners brings big-time fun, flavor, and flair to your own dinners.

In Season: Culinary Adventures of a San Juan Island Chef

Greg Atkinson

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This is a 'must' cookbook for serious chefs 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful.

The most interesting thing about IN SEASON is the author's personal tales relative to each of the principal ingredients about which he writes. It is more than a cookbook, it is fascinating personal epoch which draws you in and keeps your interest, all the while giving good advice and recipes about Northwest products.

Editorial Review:

Cooking, like travel, is one of life's great adventures. Join Greg Atkinson, one of the Pacific Northwest's most heralded young chefs, on a gastonomic journey through the seasons as he explores the importance of good food in our everyday lives.

Paley's Place Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from the Pacific Northwest

Vitaly Paley, Kimberly Paley, Robert Reynolds

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At Paley's Place Bistro and Bar, Vitaly Paley brings French training and international influences to bear on his unquenchable passion for the local foodstuffs of his adopted Oregon. In THE PALEY'S PLACE COOKBOOK, he adapts his food for the home cook, tempting the reader with a casually elegant Walla Walla Onion Tart with Fresh Goat Cheese and Summer Herb Pesto, a show-stopping Cedar Planked Salmon, an indelible Crème Brulée, and many others. Stories of the farmers, fishers, and foragers who supply Paley's Place with ingredients and inspiration; wine notes emphasizing local wines; and photographs of the food, the restaurant, and Oregon landscapes make this book a showcase of the region's culinary riches.

The Northwest Essentials Cookbook: Cooking With the Ingredients That Define a Regional Cuisine

Greg Atkinson

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Apples, salmon, wild mushrooms, and Dungeness crab--these are some of the ingredients celebrated in Greg Atkinson's The Northwest Essentials Cookbook, an exploration of regional bounty and the cooking it inspires. Atkinson, food writer and chef at Canlis in Seattle, offers 150 accessible recipes peppered with personal culinary narratives evoking his own Northwest "journey." Readers interested in one of the country's most fertile and gastronomically distinguished regions, and those seeking straightforward yet polished recipes for its cooking, should be delighted.

Organized by the ingredients (which, in addition to the above, include stone fruit, herbs, berries, oysters, and mussels, among other seafood), the book features recipes for the likes of Pork Tenderloin Sautéed with Morels, Grilled Singing Scallops on the Half Shell, and Warm Chocolate Hazelnut Cake. There's a definitive recipe for apple pie, a marvelous Dungeness crab gumbo and, among more modish offerings, Flame-Broiled Arctic Char with Cherry Salsa. If Atkinson's introductory essays on, for example, an early morning encounter with a wave-skimming salmon strain for effect, his recipes are always inviting and his culinary information comprehensive. Of particular interest and usefulness are his chapter-by-chapter investigations of apple, salmon, herb, and other food varieties (his discussion of apple types--he favors the jonagold for all-purpose use--is particularly good). Infused with a love of food and respect for ingredients treated simply, Atkinson's book does full justice to the richness of the culinary Northwest and its cooking. --Arthur Boehm

Pacific Northwest: The Beautiful Cookbook

Kathy Casey

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Pacific Northwest the Beautiful Cookbook: Beautiful Indeed 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This cookbook is magnificent! With breathtaking photography,stellar production values and innovative recipes which emphasize the unique bounty of the Pacific Northwest, what more could anyone ask for in a cookbook? Grab your own copy to use and treasure forever!

The Best of the Best! 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

Of all my cook books, this is my favorite. The beautiful illustrations are a plus along with the truly unique recipes. It's such a beautiful book I leave it on my coffe table for my friends to look through and comment. As much as I like experimenting with different styles of cooking, I seem to always return to this book. It truly represents the unique style of cooking in the beautiful Pacific Northwest!

I'm looking for a copy of this book . . . 5 out of 5 stars.
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I dream of creating some of these dishes for friends 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is absolutely one of the most beautiful cookbooks I have ever had the pleasure to add to my library. It could as easily be presented as a travelogue with recipes, as it contains sections for all of the Pacific Northwest; Vancouver and British Columbia, the Islands, Washington, Oregon and Idaho...and is so informative and full of images, I want to go there right now. I vacillate between wanting to visit the restaurants where some of the recipes originated, and wanting to take a stab at making them myself; and the pictures of the finished products make me want to eat the page. All recipes are complete with a history of the dish and concise and readable instructions, and most, if not all, look quite easy to replicate. There are some that include ingredients that would be hard to find (Yelloweye Rockfish and Singing Scallops comes to mind) but I'm sure other (lesser in the eyes of Pacific Northwest natives, I'm sure) variations would work as well for the dish. I am looking forward to trying Geoduck and Green Onion Hash; Wild Mushroom Ragout; Basque Onions in Sour Cream; Peppered Flank Steak with Oregon Blue Cheese Sauce; Stout Braised Beef with Onions and Sour Cream; and the Baked Blueberry Clafouti looks divine. There isn't a page that doesn't suck you in and you realize that your mouth is watering as you read. If you can obtain a copy of this cookbook (a caveat; it is a coffee table sized book), it will satisfy both your yen to read about the Pacific Northwest as an eventual destination and excite your imagination towards creating some outstanding dishes for your next dinner party. Highly recommended.

Best Places Seattle Cookbook: Recipes from the City's Outstanding Restaurants and Bars

Cynthia C. Nims, Kathy Casey

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I am smitten 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 9 people found this review helpful.

I am not a cook, but after reviewing this book, i really want to be, not to mention that the recipes left me salivating. It may not be a book for the complete beginner but with some enthusiasm, the recipes in this book are very do-able. The side essays written by kathy casey are funny and informative and both authors clearly try to make the recipes understandable and do-able for the home kitchen. I am smitten with my kitchen and the tasty treats i can make in it. Thanks to Kathy Casey and Cynthia Nims for their tempting inspirations!

I can vouch for the el camino enchiladas and bahia mussells 4 out of 5 stars.
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The enchiladas, especially, were great, which they should be since it took one chef, two drunken sous chefs, and one person sitting on a stool shouting instructions about 2 solid hours to make them. But it was worth it.

Brings a luscious taste of Seattle into any home dining menu 5 out of 5 stars.
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The collaborative effort of Cynthia C. Nims and Kathy Casey, Best Places Seattle Cookbook collects 125 recipes from the most heavily patronized chefs in Seattle. Restaurant favorites such as Baked Oysters with Beurre Blanc; Heirloom Tomato Salad; Lemon Rosemary Biscotti; Fresh Blackberry Tart, Cadillac Margarita; and more come with exhaustively detailed preparation instructions to bring a luscious taste of Seattle into any home dining menu. The explicit text details the subtle nuances of each dish in this highly recommended resource for aspiring chefs of intermediate culinary skills and above.

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Recipes from Restaurants and Bars in Seattle.

The Double Musky Inn Cookbook: Alaska's Mountain Cajun Cuisine

Bob Persons, Deanna Persons

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Double Musky Inn is a treasure 5 out of 5 stars.
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A true Alaskan gem, easily one of the best places to eat for thousands of miles in any direction.

This Cookbook has all the classic recipes and even goes into detail on how they make their broths.

You will love this simple, easy to read cookbook. Buy it today!

No Show order 1 out of 5 stars.
0 of 4 people found this review helpful.

What book. You dummies sent it to the wrong address.I had previously changed my address. Then I emailed you a letter and my concerns were not respondedto. The situation is comic. itrid again to change my address and it did,t work again.

The Double Musky Inn - A most unique & delightful dining experience 5 out of 5 stars.
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Having actually dined at this charming restaurant, I was delighted to find the cookbook with their actual recipes. I enjoyed it so much that I purchased a second for my stepmom. Keep up the fantastic job and for anyone thinking about visiting Alaska, this is a "must go to" place to dine.

Double Musky Cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
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My husband and I used to eat at this restaurant when we traveled to the Kenai/Palmer/Seward area from Anchorage. Their food is absolutely the most wonderful, the essence of the restaurant is comfortable for anyone, from jeans to suits. I flew home for my uncle's funeral in December and found that they have a cookbook, as soon as I returned home I ordered from Amazon - this is a must have cookbook, if not for the recipes, which are incredible, but for the memories.

Editorial Review:

Persons includes more than 250 recipes from Alaska's famous mountain Cajun restaurant. Restaurant featured on Food Network and in New York Times.