Synopses & Reviews
What is "fusion cooking"? It's brushing skewers of beef tenderloin with a traditional Caribbean jerk barbecue sauce; matching spicy Southwest fried chicken with a sunny ginger-apricot sauce; or drizzling watermelon and sweet red onion salad with a raspberry cabernet vinaigrette. In short, fusion cooking means combining ingredients and techniques from around the world to achieve exciting flavors.
Fusion Food Cookbook celebrates the new American cuisine, in which distinctive seasonings and cooking styles from Asia, Mexico, the American Southwest, New Orleans, the Caribbean, and the Mediterranean are incorporated into familiar home cooking. Highlighting the vivid flavors of these diverse ethnic and regional traditions, authors Hugh Carpenter and Teri Sandison define a major trend in American cooking, showing us how to mix and match seasonings and cooking techniques and encouraging us to be more creative in our own cooking.
The 150 flavor-intense recipes in Fusion Food Cookbook require no hard-to-find ingredients or special equipment. More than 100 color photographs by acclaimed food and wine photographer Teri Sandison capture the vivid colors and cross-cultural style of the inspired recipes.
About the Author
Fusion Food Cookbook is the third cookbook by the award-winning husband and wife team of Hugh Carpenter and Teri Sandison. Their previous books are Pacific Flavors, which won the IACP/Seagrams award for "Best Asian Cookbook" of 1988, and Chopstix, which received an IACP/Seagrams nomination for "Best Food Photography" of 1990. Teri Sandison has photographed more than 40 cookbooks for leading publishers and is known for her unique sense of style. They live in the Napa Valley community of Oakville.Fusion Food Cookbook is the third cookbook by the award-winning husband and wife team of Hugh Carpenter and Teri Sandison. Their previous books are Pacific Flavors, which won the IACP/Seagrams award for "Best Asian Cookbook" of 1988, and Chopstix, which received an IACP/Seagrams nomination for "Best Food Photography" of 1990. Hugh Carpenter teaches cooking classes throughout North America and at his cooking school in Napa Valley.
Table of Contents
Introduction
For the Fun of It: Appetizers to Tease the Palate
Wild About Dumplings
Fusion Salads for Any Occasion
New Wave Soups for Main Entrees
Leaping Fresh from the Sea, Lakes, and Rivers
Cross-Cultural Cooking with Poultry and Game
Red Meats for Winter Nights and Summer Barbecues
Stars and Supporting Roles with Pasta, Rice, and Breads
Magic with Vegetables and Eggs
Chocolate Fantasies for Life Fulfillment
Flavor Resources to Enrich Everyday Food
Acknowledgments
Artwork Credits
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