California Wine Country A Way of Life in 50 Recipes

On this joyful getaway to seven of California's finest wineries we will discover a unique California lifestyle through original, delicious and spectacular recipes. Chefs from such outstanding wineries as Fetzer, Kendall-Jackson, E. & J. Gallo, Arrowood, Beringer, L. M. Martini and R. H. Phillips offer a fresh and colorful cuisine that emanates multiethnic flavors and aromas in combinations as unexpected as they are astounding. Each recipe features a suggested wine to delightfully complement every course. The California dream in all its splendor! In addition to the recipes, which are true to the purest California winery tradition, whose philosophy and history are shared by today's owners and chefs, this incomparable book offers sumptuous color photographs, along with a wealth of details on the history of cuisine and winemaking in California, the phenomenal rise of organic growing and the region of San Francisco, the American capital of the avant-garde. California Wine Country, A Way of Life in 50 Recipes showcases the ingenuity of artisans who work in an extraordinary natural setting. The birthplace of "fusion cuisine", organic agriculture and a dynamic wine industry, California offers a bounty of delights that its chefs and oenologists energetically display for the whole world to discover. Book jacket.Saine, Janine is the author of 'California Wine Country A Way of Life in 50 Recipes', published 2004 under ISBN 9782894551561 and ISBN 2894551568.