The Northwest Essentials Cookbook: Cooking With the Ingredients That Define a Regional Cuisine

Award-winning chef Greg Atkinson explores and savors the Northwest cuisines signature ingredients including oysters, Dungeness crabs, king salmon, cherries, and hazelnuts.

Without crisp apples, wild salmon, sweet hazelnuts, mint from the garden, and spot prawns, there would be no such thing as Northwest cuisine. In this big-hearted cookbook, Greg Atkinson celebrates these and other regional treasures with a cooks knowledge and a locals love of place. Join Atkinson on a culinary tour of these special ingredients as he explains which oysters can stand up to cooking, which apples make the best pies, and how to use cherries in both savory and sweet dishes. With more than 150 choice recipes, this is sure to become an essential cookbook.

Greg Atkinson, executive chef at Canlis and author of In Season (see page 19), writes a regular column in the Seattle Times Pacific Northwest magazine. He lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington.