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The Daily Dish Archive
October
31, 2002
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
October
28, 2002
"PinotFest - A Public Tasting of a Sexy Wine," San Francisco's
only all-pinot noir tasting, will be held on Saturday, November 23, 2002 at Farallon,
450 Post Street, San Francisco, the site of the last three Pinot Noir Fests. Wines
from CA & Oregon will be tasted.
October 25, 2002
Cooking
with Cajun Women by Nicole Denee Fontenot of Louisiana offers 300 classic
recipes and anecdotes on Cajun men and women and the preservation of Cajun culture.
Corn Maque Choux, Crawfish Etouffee, Seafood Gumbo, Fig Cake & Pecan Pralines
are a few of her rural Southern Louisiana offerings.
October 22, 2002
Emmy
Award winning TV host of The Sonoran Grill, Mad Coyote Joe has put
together a collection of quick and easy snacks that fit today's busy lifestyles.
Snack
Attack is his third cookbook, after A
Gringo's Guide to Mexican Cooking and the Sonoran
Grill.
October 19, 2002
Michael
Chiarello's Casual Cooking includes Napa Valley, CA wine country recipes for
family and friends. Chiarello is also host of the PBS series "Michael Chiarello's
Napa" and founder of the Napa Valley restaurant Tra Vigne.
October
17, 2002
Engaging dessert writer Fran Gage has produced a second book celebrating
the four elements that make dessert possible: sugar, almonds, eggs and butter.
Titled A
Sweet Quartet, this baker's tour includes 33 recipes. Her first book was Bread
and Chocolate.
October 14, 2002
Author Bruce
Richardson of The
Great Tea Rooms of Britain now takes you on an equally fascinating journey
into 21 glorious tea rooms across the United States and Canada with The
Great Tea Rooms of America. From palatial hotels to Civil War mansions, grand
gardens and nostalgic English-style cottages, this colorful collection of 125
color photographs, narrative, and 65 recipes despels the idea that only the British
know how to do a "proper afternoon tea."
October 11, 2002
Napa
Valley Impressions contains over 120 color images by photographer Jerry Alexander
on 96 pages. This beautiful collection of Napa Valley, CA images, spanning ten
years, is complemented by twenty-two personal stories. From Robert Mondavi to
vineyard worker Arnulfo Solorio, this book offers an intimate view of the valley
as experienced by the people who live and work here.
October 8, 2002
In
Between
Bites: Memoirs of a Hungry Hedonist, James Villas writes about discovering
and developing his palate in France in the early 1960s, the Advent of Julia (Child,
of course), the rise of nouvelle cuisine, and the return to regional cooking.
Though he claims to be a supporter of down-home American cuisine, Villas is deeply
enamored of all things jet set.
October 6, 2002
Get
wild in Mendocino County at the Mendocino, CA Third
Annual Wine and Mushroom Fest November 6-12.
October
4, 2002
Acknowledging the increasing popularity of olive oil, Deborah Krasner's
The Flavors
of Olive Oil offers a comprehensive guide to tasting, understanding, and cooking
with superior extra-virgin olive oil, the cold first pressing of the olive crop's
best. Most valuably, the book offers profiles of the best oils from countries
including Italy, France, Spain, and the U.S.
October 1,
2002
Caprial's
Bistro-Style Cuisine by Caprial Pence is now in Paperback! Caprial Pence,
culinary ambassador of the Pacific Northwest, has long espoused a cooking style
that combines French bistro fare with the fantastic local produce of her native
region. This book features the sweet and savory dishes that have earned the chef's
Portland bistro national acclaim and a legion of local patrons.
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