The New Wine Country Cookbook: Recipes from California's Central Coast

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Move over Napa make way for Californias hottest fastest-growing wine country the Central Coast. Featuring 120 wine-friendly and wine-inclusive recipes The New Wine Country Cookbook showcases the best the Central Coast has to offer. Californias Central Coast wine country is on everyones lips. Running roughly from Monterey to Santa Barbara the Central Coast is the fastest-growing American Viticultural Area (AVA) in the state. Here great minds conceive and create great winesmany of them blends of Rhne grape varieties. Complement these wines with the lush resources of unspoiled land sea and barnyard and you have the recipe for a fresh and alluring wine country lifestyle. For nearly two centuries people have gravitated to the Golden State. But its the center of the state that remains pristine far enough from the crowded cities but close enough for a long weekend trip. The land of rolling golden hills; lush agricultural produce; and simple values still remains. You could call it Tuscany with cowboys. In this lushly photographed tome best-selling cookbook author Brigit Binns writes a vivid delicious love letter to her home state. 120 Wine-friendly and wine-inclusive dishes showcase Californias glorious bounty such as Shaved Artichoke and Pancetta Salad with Lavender; Fennel- and Garlic-Crusted Roast Chicken; Petrale Sole with Pinot Noir Butter Sauce; and Fresh Fig Tart with Honey Goat Cheese and Pistachios. Each recipe has a wine pairing suggestion from the region as well as from afar. Plus 25 get-to-know-them profiles bring the reader inside the hearts and minds of the regions passionate winemakers and food artisans. We all dream of the wine country lifestyle. With The New Wine Country Cookbook you can now savor the romance bold honest flavors and rustic outdoor sensibility of Californias sublimely unpretentious new wine country in your own home. The New Wine Country Cookbook provides an evocative view of the dynamic food and wine culture of Californias fastest growing wine region. The Central Coast should be on every food and wine lovers radar. Rajat Parr wine director of the michael mina group and author of the James Beard awardwinning Secrets of the Sommeliers Paso Robles . . . is becoming a hot destination worthy of the most discerning wine and food travelers. Wine spectator Even if you cant visit (and believe me after paging through this gorgeous book youll want to) this book will help you create a convivial wine-country feast in your own home.Paso Robles is a region full of mavericks and innovatorsFrench wine nobility cultivate vineyards next to fourth-generation cowboys and for every sleek new wine bar theres a cowboy saloon with moose heads hung on the walls. Justluxe.com This is an incredible and beautiful collection of recipes stories about Central Coast vineyards and photos. It makes you feel like you are a native of this beautiful down-to-earth wine region of California. Brigit knows this world and describes it in ways not many can do. Im completely jazzed to try these recipes. Susan Feniger chef and owner of Border Grill Restaurants and Susan Fenigers Street