When it comes to cocktails and appetizers, chef Kathy Casey is an expert at balancing flavors and textures. Sips & Apps has 100 recipes that include not only classics like the Martini and Manhattan but also creative new concoctions like the Douglas Fir Sparkletini and the Blue Thai Mojito. Appetizers include simple finger foods like Roasted Pear Crostini with Gorgonzola and ChaCha Cashews and more substantial treats like Asian Shrimp Cakes with Sweet Chili Sauce. Lots of info on stocking a home bar and plenty of techniques and extras (like a nifty double ribbon marker labeled "sips" and "apps") make it easy to match up the right sip with the right app.
Kathy Casey is a celebrity chef, mixologist and pioneer in the bar-chef movement.
She played a key role in bringing Northwest cuisine and women chefs to national prominence and, as one of the first female executive chefs in the United States, she was named one of Food & Wine's "hot new American chefs."
An accomplished writer, she is the author of nine cookbooks, including the James Beard Award-nominated Kathy Casey's Northwest Table. Her newest book is, Sips & Apps. A Seattle Times food feature columnist for 12 years, today she blogs at Dishing with Kathy Casey, the companion to her weekly radio spot. You can also catch her musings in Flavor and the Menu and Drinks Magazine as well as at Amazon's aldente.com blog.
Kathy is the owner of Kathy Casey Food Studios® and Liquid Kitchen™; her agency specializes in delicious creativity: food, beverage and restaurant/hospitality concept consulting, product development as well as social media food and beverage promotions. Clients such as Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Marriott Hotels, Sunset Produce, Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, Costco, Wild Hibiscus, Holland America Line, Restaurants Unlimited, Unilever, Monterey Gourmet Foods, Monin Gourmet, Beam Global Spirits, Brown-Forman, Skyy Spirits, Crown Imports, Ketel One, Diageo, Bacardi, Moet Hennessy, Remy Cointreau and Proximo Spirits have sought her development skills, advice and expertise.
Kathy also owns Dish D'Lish "Food to Go-Go" cafes - as well as Dish D'Lish branded retail and food-service specialty food products and cocktail mixers.
When not dreaming up "the next big thing," Kathy can be found foraging for wild mushrooms or harvesting kiwis from her urban garden.... or these days, twittering (@kathycaseychef)! Visit www.kathycasey.com or find Sips & Apps on Facebook.
