If you like The Open Hand Cookbook

The Open Hand Cookbook
Robert C. Schneider

The list of contributors to this benefit cookbook (Project Open Hand provides meals to AIDS patients) includes most of the hot names in the California cooking world, from Alice Waters to Laura Chenel to Wolfgang Puck. Each has provided a seasonal menu for a special occasion, as informal as a summer picnic, as festive as a champagne birthday brunch.…

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