Salsa!:Recipes for Latin Dishes with Sizzling Salsa Music (MusicCooks: Recipe Cards/Music CD/DVD)
Sharon O'Connor is building a career around her  passions. She travels the world collaborating with  great chefs and musicians, bringing together food,  art, music, and travel to create her two best-selling  series, Menus and Music® and MusicCooks®.After graduating from the University of California  with degrees in music and sociology, Sharon  continued her education in Europe at the renowned  Amsterdam Conservatory of Music. Upon returning  to the Bay Area, she established the San Francisco  String Quartet, and for sixteen years the quartet  performed in the Garden Court of San Francisco's  celebrated Palace Hotel. In her remarkable career  as a musician, O'Connor has recorded and performed with music icons such as  Frank Sinatra, Van Morrison, Tony Bennett, Linda Ronstadt, and Aretha Franklin!In 1985, Sharon founded Menus and Music and became the first person to ever  package a cookbook with music. In 2005, Sharon introduced MusicCooks,  stylish boxed recipe cards with music that makes cooking and entertaining at  home more fun. O'Connor's recipes are fresh, quick, and easy, and each one  has a sensational food photo, practical cook's tips, and a shopping and  pantry list. The music is performed by Grammy Award winners and other  great musicians. Now with more than thirty titles, O'Connor's publications  have sold millions of copies worldwide.Sharon O'Connor lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her husband and  two daughters enthusiastically help in the research, travel, and tasting  for her series.