Prospect Park Books

First We Surf, Then We Eat: Recipes From a Lifetime of Surf Travel

Jim Kempton has spent his life traveling and surfing the world, along the way learning to cook the world’s best beach-loving dishes. Now he’s sharing his vividly colorful, richly flavorful, and vibrantly healthful collection of more than 90 recipes, along with stories of the best waves, markets, restaurants, adventures, and misadventures that he’s experienced, from Australia to Hawaii, …

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L.A. Mexicano

The celebration of Mexican cooking that food lovers have been waiting for.Richly photographed and authentically local, L.A. Mexicano showcases L.A.’s famously rich and complex Mexican-food culture, including recipes, profiles of chefs, bakers, restaurateurs, and vendors, and neighborhood guides. Part cookbook, part food journalism, and part love song to Los Angeles, it’s the definitive resource for home cooks nationwide, …

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Das Cookbook: German Cooking . . . California Style

This modern German-Californian cookbook from longtime Los Angeles chef and restaurateur Hans Röckenwagner features sections on bread-making (yes, pretzel bread!), holiday treats, and bar snacks, along with the most popular recipes from his several Los Angeles restaurants, including 3 Square Cafe on famed Abbot Kinney Boulevard and Cafe Röckenwagner in Brentwood.Hans Röckenwagner’s background spans thirty years of cooking …

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Celebrating with Julienne

This award-winning, regionally best-selling cookbook is flat-out gorgeous. And the food is amazing, too. Author Susan Campoy spent thirty years as one of Los Angeles’ most in-demand caterers, and her Julienne bistro in San Marino hasn’t had an empty seat in two decades. Completed just before Campoy died of breast cancer in 2009, Celebrating with Julienne showcases the …

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Little Flower: Recipes from the Cafe

Chosen by Food52.com as one of the 16 best cookbooks of 2012, Little Flower showcases the most beloved dishes at Christine Moore’s Little Flower cafe in Los Angeles. Her food is artfully simple and powerfully flavorful, and each recipe is accompanied with a vivid full-page photo. The collection focuses on breakfast, lunch, simple supper, and her acclaimed desserts. …

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Little Flower Baking

“When you eat Christine Moore’s food, you feel happy and well served by life.”— Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize–winning food writer, Los Angeles TimesOne of California’s most acclaimed bakers is sharing her very best recipes, all adapted and carefully tested for the home cook. Extensively photographed and rich with Christine Moore’s down-home warmth and wisdom, it inspires home cooks …

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