Vancouver Cooks

Vancouver Cooks compiles more than 100 recipes from the city of Vancouver's chefs and top restaurants.  ----  Format: Softcover, 218 pages.  Copyright: 2004  Publisher: Douglas & Mcintyre  Author: Jamie Maw and Joan Cross   Description: Combine one part internationally recognized chefs with two parts fresh local ingredients, add a culinary culture that spans both sides of the Pacific Ocean, mix well and the result is Vancouver Cooks, a sublime collection of more than one hundred recipes.  Vancouver -- the city, the island and the nearby food- producing areas -- has long been one of the food world's best-kept secrets. A merging of Asian influences with classical European techniques, the region's innovative, inspired menus recently led the Chicago Tribune to declare, "Vancouver's culinary reputation ranks among gastronomic giants such as New York, London and Tokyo."  In these sumptuously designed pages, more than fifty award-winning cooks, all of them members of the Chefs' Table S