Everyday Asian

From acclaimed fusion chef Yeo, author of Cooking from A to Z, an easy-to-use cookbook that highlights the increasingly popular flavors of the Pacific Rim in simple recipes for the home cook. Foreword by Mario Batali. Patrica Yeo is one of the most acclaimed of the new crop of bright young chefs in America. She specializes in world food, introducing Asian flavors, California freshness and French technique to her restaurant menus, including the offerings at her former restaurant, the three-star A/Z in Manhattan. With Everyday Asian, Yeo leaves restaurant technique behind and focuses on packing flavor into dishes for weekday meals and simple home entertaining. Everyday Asian includes over one hundred recipes with far eastern, Indian, and southeast Asian accents, including: Chinese Chicken Salad with pickled vegetables Seared tuna and three-bean salad Toasted Walnut, Cheese, and Chile Shortbread Smoky eggplant and yogurt puree Gingered Pineapple Glaze for Buffalo Wings Roasted five-spice chicken Thai pork curry Stir-fried beef with black beans Baked coconut rice pudding The taste of the Pacific Rim is still the biggest trend in food today, and Yeo is the ideal expert to translate it for home cooks.