New World Provence - Modern French Cooking for Friends and Family (Paperback)

Finalist for ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Cooking category.

French cuisine is considered among the world's best, but its traditional ingredients like butter and cream aren't always appropriate for today's heart-healthy diets. "New World Provence," by the proprietor-chefs of the esteemed restaurants Provence Mediterranean Grill and Provence Marinaside in Vancouver, is a new-style French cookbook designed for contemporary North American audiences, featuring healthy, easy-to-find ingredients prepared using traditional French techniques tweaked with the home cook in mind.

The book includes beautiful yet simple recipes which take advantage of meats, seafood, and vegetables abundant in Canadian markets across the country; in keeping with their contemporary flair, pan-cultural influences abound, yet all the while the recipes remain faithful to French traditions.

The recipes not only reflect North American sensibilities, but familial ones as well; authors Jean-Francis and Alessandra Quaglia are the parents of two young sons, and Jean-Francis's mother is a renowned chef in France who comes to Vancouver frequently to cook at her son's restaurants. These relationships pervade the book, which reveals how a common love and respect for food can be passed on from generation to generation, from the old world to the new.

The book features 32 sumptuous full-color photographs and over 120 recipes. Recipes include: Prawns with Chickpea Socca Gallette; Whole Barbecued Rabbit; Coco Bean and Wild Mushroom Ragout; Roasted Dungeness Crab; Roasted Vegetable Tartelettes; and Bouillabaisse. Now in its 2nd printing