Explore the rich food heritage of the Northwest--a yeasty mix of Native American wilderness ways with the cooking style of the French settlers, as well as the New Englanders, Scandinavians, Germans, Italians, and Asians who followed. Janie Hibler interweaves fascinating pieces of lore, history, geography, and personal reminiscences into this collection of 212 recipes from the area. Her dishes succeed in blending the old with the new in delectable combinations that feature all the delights that the Northwest has to offer.
Award-winning cookbook author, cooking teacher, and frequent magazine contributor, Janie Hibler, was a founder of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and served as president from 1999-2000. She was also a founding member of the Portland Culinary Alliance and served as its first president.
Her published cookbooks include Wild About Game (Broadway Books, 1998), winner of the James Beard Foundation Award, Best Book Single Subject 1999, Dungeness Crabs and Blackberry Cobblers (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991), a 1992 James Beard Awards Nominee, Fair Game (Irena Chalmers, Inc., 1983), a 1984 Tastemaker Awards Nominee, and The Berry Bible (William Morrow, 2004 and AmazonEncore, 2010), a 2005 James Beard Foundation Award Nominee.
She was selected as Fiale des Etats Unis (Woman of the Year) in 2006 by the Academie Culinaire de France, the American chapter of French Master Chefs.
In 1996 she helped update the game chapter in the newly revised Joy of Cooking. Among the magazines for which Janie has written are Gourmet, Food and Wine, Ladies Home Journal, Bon Appetit, Woman's Day, Sunset, The Oregon Magazine, Northwest Palate, Cuisine, Fine Cooking, Cooking Light, Country Living, Mix and Every Day With Rachael Ray.
Janie has taught and lectured extensively on game cooking and the food of her native Pacific Northwest. Having been director of the Kitchen Kaboodle Cooking School and the Discriminating Palate, she has since conducted cooking classes in Portland, Seattle, San Juan Island, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston, and has appeared on television in New York, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Connecticut, Seattle and Portland. In 1992 she was a selected speaker in a program titled, "Cook America: Our Culinary Heritage," at the Smithsonian Institute. In 1995 and 1998 she was hired by the state of Oregon to orchestrate a dinner at the James Beard House to showcase the food and wine from the Pacific Northwest.
She has been a spokesperson for the Oregon-Agri-Business Council, and since its inception, an active committee member working to establish a year-round Portland public market. Janie has recently been appointed by the Director of the Oregon Department of Agriculture to serve as the Public Member on the Oregon Raspberry and Blackberry Commission.
