New West Cuisine: Fresh Recipes from the Rocky Mountains - Hardcover

Ewald, Chase Reynolds; Sheppard, Amy Jo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1423602560 ISBN 13: 9781423602569

Publisher: Gibbs Smith, 2008

Synopsis

New West Cuisine offers a tantalizing taste of the West. Introducing 15 great kitchens in the northern Rockies, from upscale mountain resort destination restaurants to scenery-rich ranches to mom-and-pop roadside attractions, New West Cuisine offers a variety of seasonal menus from the region's most sought-after eateries. The settings and styles differ, but all share a passion for delicious handmade food, seasonal and local ingredients, and the rich Rocky Mountain tradition of warmth and hospitality. Featuring 100 recipes as well as helpful sidebars, New West Cuisine also contains stunning scenic photography of the Mountain West.
Recipes Include:
Smoked Salmon Salad with Heart Beets and Horseradish Cream
Charred Heirloom Tomatoes
Herb-Encrusted Elk Rack with Wild Berry Sauce
Grilled Chicken with White Barbecue Sauce
Rainbow Trout Tacos with Corn Relish and Avocado Sauce
Huckleberry and Apple Crisp
Orange Poppyseed Buttercream Cake
Chocolate Chip Tartlet
Author Bio: Chase Reynolds Ewald holds degrees from Yale and the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley. She currently serves as Senior Editor for Western Art & Architecture magazine. Chase is the author of five additional books, including Arts & Crafts Style and Spirit; Cowboy Style; and, with Amy Jo Sheppard, Sweet Treats from the Wild West. She lives in Tiburon, California.
Combining her passion for cooking with her outdoor interests, Amy Jo Sheppard has served as a chef at a guest ranch in Wyoming, a remote lodge in Denali National Park, and aboard an excursion boat in Prince Williams Sound. She lives in Helena, Montana.

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From the Inside Flap

NEW WEST CUISINE offers a tantalizing taste of the West. Enlightened chefs of the new West are marrying the Rocky Mountain tradition of hearty, homemade meals with the concepts of organic, local, and sustainable food. The result is fresh, creative cuisine with a respect for the land and traditions it comes from. Featuring fifteen great kitchens in the northern Rockies-from upscale mountain resort destinations to scenery-rich ranches to mom-and-pop roadside attractions-New West Cuisine offers a variety of seasonal menus and mouthwatering dishes from the region's most sought-after eateries, along with stunning photography of each scenic setting. The locations and styles differ, but all share a passion for delicious handmade food, seasonal and local ingredients, and the rich Rocky Mountain tradition of warmth and hospitality.
CHASE REYNOLDS EWALD holds degrees from Yale and the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley and has cooked her way through northwest Wyoming dude ranch kitchens as well as on backcountry pack trips in the Absaroka Mountains' Washakie Wilderness. Founder of a nonprofit guest ranch in Wapiti, Wyoming, she now lives in northern California with her husband and four daughters, where she serves as Senior Editor for Western Art & Architecture magazine. Chase is the author of two Western Design Conference Sourcebooks as well as five additional books, including Arts & Crafts Style and Spirit, Cowboy Style, and, with Amy Jo Sheppard, Sweet Treats from the Wild West.
AMY JO SHEPPARD has spent most of her adult life in the outdoors, and much of that time cooking. After receiving a degree in Fisheries and Wildlife Biology from Iowa State University, she worked as a backcountry guide in Montana, North Carolina, and Colorado and taught environmental education at outdoor schools in northern Minnesota, North Carolina, and California. Combining her passion for cooking with her outdoor interests, Amy became a chef at a guest ranch in Wyoming, a remote lodge in Denali National Park, and aboard an excursion boat in Prince William Sound. She lives and cooks in Helena, Montana. ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER AUDREY HALL'S portraits and photo essays appear regularly in numerous magazines, including Western Interiors and Design, The Big Sky Journal, and Mountain Living. Hall has photographed six previous books, including Picnics and Off the Grid Homes, and has contributed to many more. www.audreyhall.com

About the Author

The author of five previous books, American Rustic, Old Masters of the West, Old Masters of New England, Arts and Crafts Style and Spirit, and Sweet Treats from the Wild West, Chase Reynolds Ewald writes frequently on western design and lifestyle. A graduate of Yale and the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley, she lives in northern California with her husband and four daughters.

Amy Jo Sheppard has taught environmental education and worked as a back country guide throughout the West. Sha has worked as a chef at several well-known Montana restaurants ans was the head chef at Breteche Creek before becoming its director.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1423602560
• ISBN 13: 9781423602569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 124