The Liberated Gourmet

By Michele Maggiora

Michele Maggiora, a visual artist and chef, has put her talents to use in the successful creation of a catering business, a wholesale bakery, a cookbook, a liberated gourmet cooking series, and two California restaurants. At present she is the Chef/Owner of Café Bellissimo in Northern California, a "Sunset Magazine" favorite! A Fine Arts graduate of UC Berkeley, Ms. Maggiora uses her original paintings as cover art and contributes much of the text art as well. This book will teach you how to create excellent food with a minimum of time and effort. It includes gourmet restaurant tricks of the trade, how to improve your cooking by improving your pantry, how to build a cooking repertoire from simple to the sublime, and artistic and colorful food presentation ideas.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562260812
• ISBN13: 9781562260811
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Bellissimo Productions Unlimited, Mt. Shasta, Ca.
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.