Follow your nose to the Stinking Rose, where you'll find hearty, California-Italian fare for the garlic worshipper in us all. Recipes like Garlic-Encrusted Baby Back Ribs, Savory Garlic Noodles, and even (brace yourself) Garlic Ice Cream will please die-hard garlic enthusiasts as well as those who prefer just a graceful hint of the bulb. Living up to the restaurant's motto, "We season our garlic with food," this unique cookbook will fill every kitchen with the tantalizing aroma of "the stinking rose."A pungent collection of the most popular dishes from the Stinking Rose, the garlic lover's mecca based in San Francisco and Beverly Hills.Includes 65 recipes plus 45 gorgeous photos of the food and the restaurants' whimsical d?©cor.The original Stinking Rose, in San Francisco's Italian neighborhood, North Beach, has become famous for serving more than 3,000 pounds of garlic each month.

Uglesich's Seafood Restaurant was a New Orleans institution founded in 1924. This anticipated compilation offers the family's personal home dishes as well as newly developed recipes from the business such as Hakon and Watcha Doin' Shrimp, along with explanations of how they were named or developed. Chapters include photographs of the last day that the restaurant was open and messages to the family after their home and business were damaged by Hurricane Katrina. These words of encouragement from friends and strangers across the country pay tribute to the family business and make this book a history and a legacy.

Offers two hundred garlic recipes, explores garlic's medicinal benefits and the myths associated with it, and reviews its more than fifty varieties.

In THE CHEZ PIGGY COOKBOOK, Zal and Rose share hundreds of restaurant classics such as Grilled Salmon with Citrus Glaze, Potato-Crusted Goat Cheese on Baby Greens and delicious soups and desserts.

As a nod to his Southern roots with innovative recipes like Crawfish Cakes with Black Bean Remoulade.

Widely regarded as one of North America's finest restaurants, West has garnered much critical acclaim, including recognition as among "ten of the best, worldwide" by U.K.'s "Sunday Independent." Organized by season and drawing on West's delicious recipes, this cookbook includes such tempting dishes as Dungeness Crab Tortellini with Lemongrass and Lime Broth in spring. The wine is important too -- West's wine director Owen Knowlton has suggested pairings, including the best international wines. Those who can't make it to Vancouver can still enjoy West's sumptuous menu -- it's all right here.

Imagine preparing signature dishes from over 100 of Louisiana's leading restaurants right in your own kitchen. These 350 recipes will enable you to do just that! From the Chicken and Andouille Smoked Sausage Gumbo at K-Paul's to the White Chocolate Bread Pudding at Commander's Palace, world-renowned Louisiana restaurant recipes are now at your fingertips.

Featuring over 100 delicious, garlic-laden recipes, this culinary biography offers a tour through the colorful history of one of the world’s most timeless ingredients Garlic is the Lord Byron of produce, a lusty rogue that charms and seduces you but runs off before dawn, leaving a bad taste in your mouth. Called everything from rustic cure-all to Russian penicillin, Bronx vanilla and Italian perfume, garlic has been loved, worshipped, and despised throughout history. No writer has quite captured the epic, roving story of garlic—until now. While this book does not claim that garlic saved civilization (though it might cure whatever ails you), it does take us on a grand tour of its fascinating role in history, medicine, literature, and art; its controversial role in bigotry, mythology, and superstition; and its indispensable contribution to the great cuisines of the world. And just to make sure your appetite isn’t slighted, Garlic offers over 100 recipes featuring the beloved ingredient.

It's a classic steakhouse, a superb Italian-American restaurant, a power-lunch mainstay, and the oldest family-owned, white-tablecloth restaurant group in the country, with 28 locations in 24 cities--each one administered by third-generation descendants of the original owners. Now, finally, everyone can learn the cooking technique that makes Palm steaks and chops so delectably juicy. In more than 125 recipes, the secrets behind some of the Palm's most requested dishes are revealed by executive chef Tony Tammero, with recipes for Steak à la Stone, Monday Night Salad, Veal Martini, Clams Oreganato, Spaghetti Carbonara, Gigi Salad, and quite possibly the best creamed spinach on the planet. Because each dish at the Palm has a story behind it, this is a cookbook filled with real-life stories, celebrity anecdotes, vivid characters, and the very special flavor of a restaurant that has prospered while remaining true to the original owners' credo: "Exceed the customer's expectation, and treat everyone who walks through our door as if they are family."

Finally, the cookbook of a Seattle lover's wildest food dreams! With more than 200,000 copies sold over 20 years, it's about time that Seattle's favourite guidebook dished up the best recipes from the city's hottest chefs. Included are 125 recipes and a chapter devoted to signature drinks. Best Places Seattle Cookbook will satisfy the hunger of Seattle food lovers near and far.