Cafe Pongo Cookbook More Than 220 Recipes from the Hudson Valley

Val Nehez grew up in Philadelphia and spent summers cooking with her grandmother in Merchantville, New Jersey. At the age of twenty, Val left college to start a restaurant, Santa Fe. This was the first business to open in the virtually abandoned village of Tivoli, in the Hudson Valley of New York, near Bard College and Rhinebeck. Ten years later, she opened Cafe Pongo (named for her dog) in the same townNehez, Valerie is the author of 'Cafe Pongo Cookbook More Than 220 Recipes from the Hudson Valley' with ISBN 9780684871370 and ISBN 0684871378.