Cooking At La Cusinga with The Chef of the Jungle
Chef David Mahler is lifetime restaurant Chef who hails from the San Francisco Bay Area.  He has returned to the United States after living in Costa Rica for five years and he now resides in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Chef Dave has spent his life in pursuit of good food, great ingredients and the capture of Flavor.  His cooking has taken him from his native Bay Area (after a time there in the Berkeley food scene of the late 70's and early 80's) to Boston, Cape Cod, Los Angeles, the Napa Valley, Lake Tahoe, Maui and more.  Wherever there has been a chance to use new ingredients, cook new foods and learn new techniques Chef Dave has traveled. While he was in Costa Rica he wrote a food column called Chef of the Jungle for Dominical Days, the local magazine as well as writing a blog of the same name.  His writings (along with the numerous guest requests for his recipes) stirred him to create this colorful cookbook full of bright flavors and simple but fully realized dishes.