American Western Cooking from the Roaring Fork
By Robert McGrath
(Lone Star Books, 2000)
Hardcover, 258 pgs., $29.95

Award-winning chef Robert McGrath loves to cook, enjoys the outdoors and admires the adventurous spirit of the American West. He brings all those elements together in a beautiful new cookbook designed to blend the rustic and contemporary, American Western Cooking from the Roaring Fork, his acclaimed restaurant in Scottsdale, Ariz. McGrath finds inspiration in the Western vistas and in the flavors, the foods and the preparation techniques of the Native Americans, the Hispanics and the Anglo pioneers who settled the region. The book has excellent color photography and clean, eye-catching design; recipe ingredients are printed on an earth-tone topographical map background to carry through the outdoor theme. From drinks to desserts, the cookbook offers a wide range of ideas that transfer well to the homefront, with innovative recipes that also are short and simple to prepare but will impress family and guests.

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