Synopses & Reviews
ONE OF AMERCA'S BEST-LOVED COOKS COOKS THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS
Introducing global cuisine, one-world cuisine, fusion cuisine-Sheila cuisine. In a work of pure alchemy, Sheila Lukins helps set a dazzling new course for American cooking in 450 recipes that marry the best of the world's tastes, techniques, and ingredients.
"In my mind, Sheila Lukins is one of the most important people in the food world. She's passionate...she's caring...she's dynamic...and she's made an enormous contribution to the way we eat today." -Paula Wolfert author of The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean
"Sheila Lukins is one of the most delightful and generous people, and creative and discerning cooks. I would follow her anywhere, as well as through a recipes." -Barbara Kafka author of Party Food
Synopsis
A culinary genius who helped change the way America eats, Sheila Lukins is the cook behind the phenomenal success of The Silver Palate Cookbooks and The New Basics Cookbook, with over 5 million copies in print. Now Sheila embarks on her first solo journey, visiting 33 countries on a cooks tour of cuisines, ingredients, and tastes. The result is pure alchemy--a new kind of American cookbook that reinterprets the best of the worlds food in 450 dazzling, original recipes. In addition, there are new wines to discover, menus to experiment with, ingredients to learn, spice cabinets to raid--and travelogues to savor. Main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books and Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service; and selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club.
About the Author
Sheila Lukins, one of America's best-known and best-loved food writers, was the co-founder of the legendary Silver Palate take-out shop. Her celebrated cookbooks, written alone and with her Silver Palate partner, Julee Rosso, helped change the way America's eats. For the past 23 years, she was also the Food editor of Parade Magazine.