Salad Days : Main Course Salads for a First-Class Meal

The author of Death by Chocolate and Desserts to Die For brings his creative approach to main-course salads, with such creations as Penne Pasta and Spinach with Oven-Roasted Plum Tomatoes, Toasted Walnuts, Curly Endive, and Cracked Black Pepper Vinaigrette. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

Marcel Desaulniers, executive chef and co-owner of The Trellis Restaurant in Colonial Williamsburg, has been named in Food and Wine's Honor Roll of Chefs and in Cook's magazine's Who's Who of Cooking. In 1988 he became the first chef from the South to be honored by the James Beard Foundation as a Great American Chef. He has been inducted into the American Academy of Chefs, the Honor Society of the American Culinary Federation, and he is on the Board of Trustees of the Culinary Institute of America. In addition, The Trellis Restaurant has won Restaurants and Institutions magazine's prestigious Ivy Award.

Desaulniers is the author of The Trellis Cookbook; Death by Chocolate, which won the James Beard Award as the Best Baking and Dessert Book of 1992; The Burger Meisters, which won the James Beard Award as the Best Book on a Single Subject in 1994; Desserts to Die For, which in 1995 won both the Julia Child Award for the Best Book in the Bread, Other Baking, and Sweets category and the Cooks' Choice award; An Alphabet of Sweets, with art by Nancy Thomas; and, most recently, Death by Chocolate Cookies. The host of the immensely popular Death by Chocolate and Burger Meisters television series, Marcel Desaulniers lives, writes, and cooks in Williamsburg, Virginia.