The Northwest Essentials Cookbook:
Subtitle: Cooking With the Ingredients That Define a Regional Cuisine
By: Greg Atkinson
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Published: October 12, 1999
Place of publication: Seattle, WA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781570611797
Copyright date: 1999 by Greg Atkinson
Subjects: Pacific Northwest style; Cooking / Wine; Cooking; Regional & Ethnic - American - Northwestern States; Cookery, American
First sentence: Many people have fond childhood memories of apple trees, apple pies, and apple blossoms.
Description: Award-winning chef Greg Atkinson explores and savors the Northwest cuisines signature ingredients including oysters, Dungeness crabs, king salmon, cherries, and hazelnuts.
Without crisp apples, wild salmon, sweet hazelnuts, mint from the garden, and spot prawns, there would be no such thing as Northwest cuisine. In this big-hearted cookbook, Greg Atkinson celebrates these and other regional treasures with a cooks knowledge and a locals love of place. 
Join Atkinson on a culinary tour of these special ingredients as he explains which oysters can stand up to cooking, which apples make the best pies, and how to use cherries in both savory and sweet dishes. With more than 150 choice recipes, this is sure to become an essential cookbook.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: vi; title: Essential Ingredients
pagenum: vii; title: Selecting the Essentials
pagenum: ix; title: Apples & Pears
pagenum: 1; title: Salmon
pagenum: 33; title: Stone Fruits
pagenum: 55; title: Herbs
pagenum: 85; title: Oysters
pagenum: 101; title: Prawns & Crab
pagenum: 117; title: Wild Mushrooms
pagenum: 137; title: Berries
pagenum: 157; title: Mussels, Clams & Scallops
pagenum: 179; title: Other Fish in the Sea
pagenum: 199; title: Lentils, Split Peas & Chickpeas
pagenum: 219; title: Hazelnuts
pagenum: 237; title: Index
pagenum: 253