Cooking at De Gustibus or Everybodys San Francisco Cookbook

Cooking at De Gustibus: Celebrating 25 Years of Culinary Innovation

Author: Arlene Feltman Sailhac

For the past quarter-century the De Gustibus Cooking School at Macy's has had a unique view of the culinary revolution as it swept across America, transforming chefs into celebrities and introducing new dishes onto American menus and new foods into American homes. In De Gustibus at Macy's: Celebrating 25 Years of Culinary Innovation, founder Arlene Feltman Sailhac provides a unique pop-culture history of the American food scene since 1980, with a yearbook of superstar chefs and 100 seminal recipes that have been featured at her renowned culinary venue.

Organized chronologically, the book features brief essays that cover the explosive changes in the American culinary landscape over the last 25 years, along with colorful sidebars and archival photographs that capture the highlights of this history. Beautiful new photographs illustrate many of the recipes, which represent not only the most innovative dishes of the period but also the most timeless. An entertaining and appetizing trip down memory lane, Cooking at De Gustibus is a nostalgic look at how we were and how we ate.

Includes many recipes that have become modern classics
Profiles of and recipes by such cooking luminaries as Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, Alain Ducasse, Daniel Boulud, Alice Waters, Wolfgang Puck, and Emeril Lagasse
Organized chronologically, the book features essays that examine the changing American food scene over the last 25 years
Innovative design captures the feeling of a yearbook rather than a traditional cookbook

Interesting textbook: Deplorable Scarcity or Japan Inc

Everybody's San Francisco Cookbook

Author: Good Life Publications

An exciting celebration of San Francisco's vibrant ethnic cuisine, revealing the secrets of cooking the city's global dishes. Features the foods of Italy, India, China, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and much more. Created to demystify ethnic cooking, it features recipes, menus, a detailed glossary of ingredients, and a guide to where to find them throughout the Bay Area, making it easy to get started cooking the city's favorite foods.