American Western Cooking: From the Roaring Fork [Hardcover]

With this groundbreaking cookbook, Chef Robert McGrath of the Roaring Fork, an American western bistro and bar in Scottsdale, Arizona, serves up a new direction in cooking and recipes for the home cook. With his common-sense approach to cooking and his years of experience in the American West's finest restaurants and resorts, Chef McGrath helps you easily create elegant dishes with a rustic touch, and rustic dishes with an elegant touch.Robert McGrath is the executive chef and owner of the Roaring Fork restaurant. This bistro and bar has two locations: Scottsdale, Arizona and Austin, Texas. The James Beard Foundation has nominated him for the Best Chef in America—Southwest award in 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, and 1999. In 1988,Food & Winemagazine named him to its list of the Ten Best New Chefs in America.You've got to love a chef like Robert McGrath, who mixes high and low, uptown and down-home, old and new with casual flair and unflagging energy—just like the American West......mouth watering recipes. His new, very personal book is sure to becomethecomprehensive cookbook for those wishing to add a Western repertoire to their cooking skills.