Books for Cooks 2019, Continued
East Bay Cooks
BY CAROLYN JUNG
Award-winning food writer and regular contributor to Edible Marin & Wine Country Carolyn Jung explores our neighbor to the east—one recipe at a time—in her new book East Bay Cooks.
This unique cookbook celebrates the region by taking readers on a journey through Oakland, the most ethnically diverse city in the nation, and Berkeley, birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, as well as farther afield through tony suburbs and into one of the state’s oldest winemaking areas, using 41 stand-out restaurants as her vehicle.
Take a taste of everything from authentic Singaporean laksa, a four-napkin Baconslut sandwich and the clever mashup of aloo gobi tacos to elegant fine-dining dishes and iconic farm-to-table cuisine.
Over 80 recipes invite you to recreate the ‘taste of the East Bay’ at home.
Alchemy of the Senses
BY JEAN-CHARLES BOISSET
With wine as its muse, this large-format, velvet-encased coffee table book invites readers to explore the art of living by heightening all five senses, and experimenting with new perspectives. French-born author, designer and Wine Country vintner Jean-Charles Boisset is a natural guide for the titillating journey through a series of spectacular illustrations and interactive activities including sensory panels and textural elements. Included with the book is a gold pendulum that can be used with a custom-designed chart in the book to help access the five areas of the human dynamic: passion, balance, health, energy and love. This book is a conversation starter that can be returned to and savored again and again.
