New West Cuisine: Fresh Recipes from the Rocky Mountains
NEW WEST CUISINE offers a tantalizing taste of the West. Enlightened chefs of the new West are marrying the Rocky Mountain tradition of hearty, homemade meals with the concepts of organic, local, and sustainable food. The result is fresh, creative cuisine with a respect for the land and traditions it comes from. Featuring fifteen great kitchens in the northern Rockies-from upscale mountain resort destinations to scenery-rich ranches to mom-and-pop roadside attractions-New West Cuisine offers a variety of seasonal menus and mouthwatering dishes from the region's most sought-after eateries, along with stunning photography of each scenic setting. The locations and styles differ, but all share a passion for delicious handmade food, seasonal and local ingredients, and the rich Rocky Mountain tradition of warmth and hospitality.CHASE REYNOLDS EWALD holds degrees from Yale and the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley and has cooked her way through northwest Wyoming dude ranch kitchens as well as on backcountry pack trips in the Absaroka Mountains' Washakie Wilderness. Founder of a nonprofit guest ranch in Wapiti, Wyoming, she now lives in northern California with her husband and four daughters, where she serves as Senior Editor for Western Art & Architecture magazine. Chase is the author of two Western Design Conference Sourcebooks as well as five additional books, including Arts & Crafts Style and Spirit, Cowboy Style, and, with Amy Jo Sheppard, Sweet Treats from the Wild West.AMY JO SHEPPARD has spent most of her adult life in the outdoors, and much of that time cooking. After receiving a degree in Fisheries and Wildlife Biology from Iowa State University, she worked as a backcountry guide in Montana, North Carolina, and Colorado and taught environmental education at outdoor schools in northern Minnesota, North Carolina, and California. Combining her passion for cooking with her outdoor interests, Amy became a chef at a guest ranch in Wyoming, a remote lodge in Denali National Park, and aboard an excursion boat in Prince William Sound. She lives and cooks in Helena, Montana.ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER AUDREY HALL'S portraits and photo essays appear regularly in numerous magazines, including Western Interiors and Design, The Big Sky Journal, and Mountain Living. Hall has photographed six previous books, including Picnics and Off the Grid Homes, and has contributed to many more. www.audreyhall.com