The Fearless Chef : Innovative Recipes from the Edge of American Cuisine

Every cook wants to expand beyond the same old baked chicken and fried fish recipes. Yet many are afraid to even try to experiment for fear of culinary failure.

In this exhilarating cookbook, Fearless Chef Andy Husbands teams with Boston Globe writer Joe Yonan to take you on a wild ride to the edge of American cuisine. Husbands and Yonan help you make over your cooking style by introducing the best and boldest flavors from all over the world, making even ordinary staples such as meat loaf and tater tots extraordinary. Filled with practical tips, creative suggestions, and humorous observations, The Fearless Chef provides you with a down-to-earth approach to cooking fantastic, daring meals.

Andy Husbands is an award-winning chef and owner of four wildly popular New England restaurants: Tremont 647 (winner of "Best of Boston" awards from Boston Magazine in 1998 and 2001), Sister Sorel, Rouge, and Kestral. Andy is very involved in Share Our Strength, one of the country's leading hunger relief organizations. He is on the local and national advisory boards of Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline, a program that helps low-income families fight hunger. He also co-chairs Boston's Taste of the Nation, an annual fundraising event for the organization.

Joe Yonan is travel editor for The Boston Globe, where his articles have appeared in the Travel, Food, Calendar, Living/Arts, and Life at Home sections.