Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence winner in Seattle, knows the importance of locally sourced ingredients and cooking with the seasons. Here he has created a simple-yet-sophisticated salad built around summer stone fruits, like peaches. To balance the sweetness of the fruit, Mueller adds bitter radicchio, salty pistachios and prosciutto and a sharp, nutty aged cheddar, then dresses the salad with a tangy Sherry vinaigrette. With so many flavors happening, wine director Jason Sanneman turns to Champagne as a safe bet, opting for the fruity, bright Ruinart Brut Blanc de Blanc NV to bring the whole dish into balance.
By Bill Addison
Los Angeles Times
Cookbooks are always about connection written to share the love of a cuisine or celebrate ancestry, or sometimes to eulogize broken bonds and safeguard history. If you ve run out of ideas or motivation for preparing your next meal, if you re longing to be somewhere far away or want to explore fresh approaches to comfort food at home, or if you re thinking about the broader context of food in our troubled culture, take heart and inspiration from 11 standout books of the season. Baking at the 20th Century Cafe Admit it, begins the jacket copy of Michelle Polzine s hefty, handsome book. You re here for the famous honey cake.
Bill Addison
Los Angeles Times
Cookbooks are always about connection â written to share the love of a cuisine or celebrate ancestry, or sometimes to eulogize broken bonds and safeguard history.
If you ve run out of ideas or motivation for preparing your next meal, if you re longing to be somewhere far away or want to explore fresh approaches to comfort food at home, or if you re thinking about the broader context of food in our troubled culture, take heart and inspiration from these 11 books of the season. Baking at the 20th Century Cafe Admit it, begins the jacket copy of Michelle Polzine s hefty, handsome book. You re here for the famous honey cake. Well, yes and no. The 10-layer version of the Russian cake that Polzine serves at her cafe in San Francisco s Hayes Valley, given mysterious depths by caramelizing the honey and lightened by dulce de leche in the frosting, deserves its legendary status.