This cookbook is dedicated to a simple, well-known truth: good food is even better with wine. This book features recipes from more than 200 dedicated vintners and their families who have have contributed more than 500 time-tested recipes.

California winemakers again unlock their treasure trove of old family recipes with this book that features hundreds of delicious recipes, from the basic quick dish to the extravagantly gourmet, with wine as the primary ingredient.

In this tantalizing collection, famous California wineries recommend recipes to showcase select wines.

On this joyful getaway to seven of California's finest wineries we will discover a unique California lifestyle through original, delicious and spectacular recipes. Chefs from such outstanding wineries as Fetzer, Kendall-Jackson, E. & J. Gallo, Arrowood, Beringer, L. M. Martini and R. H. Phillips offer a fresh and colorful cuisine that emanates multiethnic flavors and aromas in combinations as unexpected as they are astounding. Each recipe features a suggested wine to delightfully complement every course. The California dream in all its splendor! In addition to the recipes, which are true to the purest California winery tradition, whose philosophy and history are shared by today's owners and chefs, this incomparable book offers sumptuous color photographs, along with a wealth of details on the history of cuisine and winemaking in California, the phenomenal rise of organic growing and the region of San Francisco, the American capital of the avant-garde. California Wine Country, A Way of Life in 50 Recipes showcases the ingenuity of artisans who work in an extraordinary natural setting. The birthplace of "fusion cuisine", organic agriculture and a dynamic wine industry, California offers a bounty of delights that its chefs and oenologists energetically display for the whole world to discover. Book jacket.