The California Seafood Cookbook contains 150 recipes, illustrated techniques, and more in this encyclopedia style guidebook and recipe book of seafood cookery.
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Format: Softcover, 288 pages.
Copyright: 1983
Publisher: Aris Books
Author: Isaac Cronin, Jay Harlow, and Paul Johnson
Description: The California Seafood Cookbook is an encyclopedic guide to seafood cookery. The 150 recipes -- with their emphasis on simplicity, fresh ingredients, and ethnic and regional tastes -- reflect a unique and innovative approach to seafood. The 75 species portraits and the illustrated techniques will prove useful to all lovers of seafood.
The authors are a superbly qualified team. Isaac Cronin is the author of several cookbooks. Jay Harlow has been a chef at many well-known seafood restaurants. Paul Johnson operates one of the finest retail/wholesale fish markets in California. The exquisite drawings are by scientific illustrator Amy Pertschuk.
Cooks and seafood lovers outside California will find The California Seafood Cookbook a valuable resource. Fully half the featured species are found in Gulf or Atlantic waters, and each recipe suggests appropriate alternative fish and shellfish from other regions.
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Condition: Good condition. Minor shelf wear.