As Northwest cuisine takes the country by storm, the venerable Northwest Best Places travel guide heads into the kitchen with this collection of 125 recipes from its star-rated establishments. The region's best chefs share their flavorful and unique adaptations of the Northwest's rich cornucopia of food stuffs from land and sea.
A lifelong Northwesterner, Cynthia Nims holds the Grand Diplome d'Etudes Culinaires from La Varenne cooking school in France, where she worked on numerous cookbooks with owner Anne Willan. Previously editor of Simply Seafood magazine and food editor of Seattle Magazine, Cynthia is now a contributor to Cooking Light, Alaska Airlines Magazine, Sunset, and other magazines. She is the author of twelve cookbooks and contributed content on Northwest cuisine to Williams-Sonoma's Savoring America and to Culinaria: The United States. Her most recent cookbooks are Salmon, the fourth in her Northwest Homegrown Cookbook Series and Memorable Gatherings: Recipes to Share with Family and Friends, co-authored with Renee Behnke. She is an active member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (currently serving as president of their board of directors) and Les Dames d'Escoffier. Her blog, Mon Appetit, can be found at www.monappetit.com/blog.
