"James Beard award-winning cooking teacher, author, and chef Joanne Weir shares 100 recipes plus culinary techniques, tips, and fundamentals in this companion book to her public television cooking show Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence"--

Chef and teacher Joanne Weir brings every city to life as she takes readers and home cooks into our nation’s ethnically diverse and vibrant culinary and cultural urban landscape. The American city food scene is thriving. In urban neighborhoods across the country you can find intriguing restaurants, ethnic and farmers’ markets, and artisanal breads and cheeses. Using her adopted city of San Francisco as a guide, Joanne invites readers to search their own cities for the incredible tastes they will find there, showing them where to source top-quality ingredients and how to re-create delicious local flavors at home. With chapters on Firsts, Soups, Mains, and Desserts, Weir includes more than 125 vividly flavored, inventive recipes—from Parmesan Flan to Silver-Roasted Salmon with Sweet-Hot Relish to Double Chocolate Ice Cream with Dried Cherries—created with urban cooks in mind: those cooks with not enough time and too little space, but an appetite for creating memorable meals and social gatherings. Accompanied by wine suggestions from wine expert Tim McDonald and filled with mouth-watering photographs, Weir Cooking in the City is the ideal guide to effortless entertaining. From creating a dinner party of small plates to a simple but sophisticated post-theater meal, from bustling neighborhood markets to Joanne’s welcoming kitchen, this excursion into city cuisine will inspire home chefs everywhere to explore the unique styles and flavors of urban cooking.

"Nationally known chef and PBS television personality Joanne Weir shares her favorite Mediterranean-inspired recipes and wine pairings from California wine country"--Provided by publisher.

From the beloved host and producer of PBS series Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence and Joanne Weir Gets Fresh. "Joanne's infectious enthusiasm...draws readers effortlessly into a new and beautiful relationship to food." - Alice Waters Chef, cooking instructor, and PBS television host Joanne Weir has inspired legions of home cooks with her signature California-Mediterranean cuisine and warm, engaging style. In Kitchen Gypsy, the James Beard Award-winning author offers a taste of the people, places, and flavors that have inspired her throughout the years. With refreshing honesty and humor, Joanne shares the spark that led to her love of cooking, how she learned to taste and develop a palate, the meal that would forever change her life, her years working with Alice Waters at Chez Panisse during the beginning of the farm-to-table movement, and her continued travels teaching cooking classes the world over. Throughout, she offers the cherished dishes and lessons that have shaped her culinary journey, from the 140-year-old Lighting Cake recipe handed down from her great-grandmother to the luxurious Beef Roulade with Mushrooms and Garlic perfected during her Master Chef training in France, and the approachable, globally-inspired dishes, like Fried Pork Belly Tacos and Autumn Salad with Figs and Pomegranate, that have made her a favorite of home cooks. Lushly illustrated with full-color photographs, Kitchen Gypsy is both an inspirational cooking resource and an armchair read, offering recipes made to be shared and savored against the colorful backdrop of Weir's evocative writing.

A collection of recipes for seasonal foods abundant during the fall season.

Sugar snap peas in March, juicy melons in July, autumn apples, and robust winter greens. Every season boasts its own bounty of fresh, delectable fruits and vegetables. And as every good cook knows, seasonal ingredients form the basis of the most memorable meals. The Complete Seasons Cookbook is a collection of more than 200 recipes that celebrate the finest fare of each season. Includes guidelines for selecting the best ingredients and tips for cooking.

With the help of Giuliano Hazan, author of "The Classic Pasta Cookbook, " Italian food can be simple to prepare. The chef shares his secrets in this collection of 120 recipes for delicious, healthy, authentic Italian fare. of color photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Those who love pasta -- and who doesn't? -- usually like to eat it often and in many forms, including risotto or rice. Pasta is delicious, filling, and healthy. It can be simple and hearty. The Complete Pasta Cookbook offers generous and inspiring helping of recipes from the: chefs at Williams-Sonoma, beautifully illustrated with easy-to-follow instructions.

Krieger, host of Food Networks "Healthy Appetite," is a proponent of good, fresh food, simply but deliciously prepared. Each of the 200 recipes contains a complete nutritional breakdown, as well as tips on ingredients and techniques for eating smart and eating well.

Collects recipes from the New York restaurant, including planked salmon caesar salad, New York cheese steak, oven-braised short ribs, chestnut stuffing, and the establishment's famous cheesecake.