The executive chef at AZ and Pazo offers her first collection of more than 130 recipes, featuring her flavorful "fusion home cooking," which offers a wide array of innovative Asian-inspired dishes.

Think fusion cooking is something you shouldn't try at home? Think being a three-star chef is a man's job? Think spicy Buffalo wings, streetside potato knishes, and comforting chicken soup are only for the uninspired palate? Think again. When it comes to world-class chefs, Patricia Yeo breaks the mold. Growing up in a Chinese family in Malaysia, she was raised on the big, bold flavors of Indian, Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Thai cooking that wafted through her grandmother's kitchen and the streets of Kuala Lumpur. It wasn't until she was a grad student in biochemistry at Princeton that Yeo turned her creativity and passion to the kitchen -- where she's been dazzling critics and diners ever since, earning a rare three stars from the New York Times for her food at restaurant AZ. In Patricia Yeo: Cooking from A to Z, her cookbook debut, Yeo lets us into her three-star kitchen - and in on the secrets of her delicious "fusion home cooking." Layering flavors, playing with contrasts, paying tribute to beloved comfort foods, and bringing the world's boldest ingredients together with ease, these light, appealing recipes are at once daringly new and reassuringly familiar. Forget everything you thought you knew about "serious food" and discover the joys of playful, flavorful cooking in this extraordinary cookbook from a new talent who's got the whole food world talking.

Patricia Yeo is one of the most acclaimed of the new crop of bright young chefs in America--she specializes in world food, introducing Asian flavors, California freshness and French technique to her restaurant menus, including the offerings at the three-star A/Z in Manhattan. With Everyday Asian, Yeo leaves restaurant technique behind and focuses on packing flavor into dishes for weekday meals and simple home entertaining. The taste of the Pacific Rim is still the biggest trend in food today, and Yeo is the ideal expert to translate it for home cooks. Everyday Asian includes over one hundred recipes with far eastern, Indian and southeast Asian accents, including: --Chinese chicken salad with pickled vegetables --Seared tuna and three-bean salad --Toasted Walnut, Cheese and Chili Shortbread --Smoky eggplant and yogurt puree --Gingered Pineapple Glaze for Buffalo wings --Roasted five-spice chicken --Thai pork curry --Stir-fried beef with black beans --Baked coconut rice pudding