New Tastes from Texas

No one knows Texan food like Stephen Pyles, acclaimed chef of Star Canyon and AquaKnox restaurants in Dallas. Ever since the release of his best-selling New Texas Cuisine, cooks around the country have been hungry for more. The wait is over with New Tastes from Texas, a companion to Stephan's new public television series of the same name.  This glorious, lushly illustrated new collection of recipes takes readers on a culinary tour of the great state, from the Gulf Coast to the great wide west, from the bayou to the border.

Born in Big Spring Texas, Stephan Pyles has been cooking since he was eight years old--first at his family's truckstop and then in world-class kitchens from Dallas to France to the Napa Valley He has been hailed by Craig Claiborne as "an absolute genius in the kitchen" and acknowledged by Bon Appetit magazine as "almost single-handedly changing the cooking scene in Texas."