Distinctive recipes of California with their unique mix of Mexican, Italian, Chinese, French, & other international flavors.

More than 350 best-ever regional recipes chosen from America's finest community cookbooks.

Food - its cultivation, preparation and communal consumption - has long been considered a form of cultural heritage. A dynamic, living product, food creates social bonds as it simultaneously marks off and maintains cultural difference. In bringing together anthropologists, historians and other scholars of food and heritage, this volume closely examines the ways in which the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of food is used to create identity claims of 'cultural heritage' on local, regional, national and international scales. Contributors explore a range of themes, including how food is used to mark insiders and outsiders within an ethnic group; how the same food's meanings change within a particular society based on class, gender or taste; and how traditions are 'invented' for the revitalization of a community during periods of cultural pressure. Featuring case studies from Europe, Asia and the Americas, this timely volume also addresses the complex processes of classifying, designating, and valorizing food as 'terroir,' 'slow food,' or as intangible cultural heritage through UNESCO. By effectively analyzing food and foodways through the perspectives of critical heritage studies, this collection productively brings two overlapping but frequently separate theoretical frameworks into conversation.

California Heritage Continues is an all-new collection of more than 300 recipes for everything from delicious appetizers to sinfully sumptuous desserts. Celebrates a culinary style that stands among the world's best. 12 black-and-white and 15 full-color illustrations.

This book contains more than 350 recipes in all categories of cuisine. These have been collected, distilled and refined over the past forty years by Professor James B. Gerhart of the University of Washington, Department of Physics, an avid cook and gourmet whose skill and judgment in domestic food preparation is legendary among family and friends. A detailed bibliography citing nearly a hundred sources is provided. (When was the last time you saw a cookbook with a bibliography?) Dr. Gerhart states in the preface, the included recipes "...are based on the recipes cited in each case, but they are modified to fit my taste, to simplify them, to adapt them to Seattle's excellent market. Many of the sources are not easily accessible. Some recipes come from friends. A few are original." Plentiful help and practical advice is provided throughout, making this an especially good book for novice cooks. An index comprising 19 pages is included, and this is available to preview among the sample pages at www.lulu.com.

Regional recipes include appetizers, salsas, soups, breads, egg dishes, meat, seafood, desserts, and beverages.

Remembrances, Residences, Recipes, and a Family Tree includes more than two hundred recipes. You will find them located in eleven chapters. A sampling of the unique offerings are: Chocolate Mousse Torte with Cold Zabaglione Sauce Clementine and Jicama Salad Penne with Wilted Arugula , Radicchio and Smoked Cheese Sauted Chicken with Olives, Capers and Roasted Lemons and Smoked Salmon Bundles. Cooking is a very personal undertaking and each reader is encouraged to individualize each recipe to her/his own tastes. There is perhaps no better way to reconnect with good friends and family than to break bread over a dinner table, sharing food, drink and stimulating conservation. Bon Appetit!