Pike Place Public Market Seafood Cookbook

by Braiden Rex-Johnson

For close to 100 years, Seattle's Pike Place Public Market has been a favorite destination for food-loving locals and tourists alike. Packed with stalls offering the best quality and selection of fish found on the West Coast, restaurants serving up Pacific Northwest cuisine, and culinary shops of every persuasion, the market is a fish-lover's paradise. In this colorful gift edition cookbook, best-selling author Braiden Rex-Johnson shares shopping tips, cooking techniques, mail-order sources, and more than 50 recipes for fish and shellfish from the chefs, restaurateurs, and fishmongers who represent the market community. Filled with candid, colorful photos, the PIKE PLACE PUBLIC MARKET SEAFOOD COOKBOOK is the perfect gift for any seafood-loving soul and a great souvenir to bring the best of the market home.

• A full-color, gift edition seafood cookbook from Seattle's Pike Place Public Market, including 50 recipes and 50 vibrant photographs of the market's people, sites, and seafood.

• Features information on sustainable fisheries and preservation.

• Includes a brief history of the Pike Place Public Market.

• Recipe highlights include Broiled Halibut with Sundried Tomato Tapenade; Balsamic Glazed Salmon; Mussels Provençal; Shellfish Risotto; and such simple, tasty sauces as Champagne Sauce, Simple Soy Glaze, and classic Romesco.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Reference

144 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1997

About the author

Braiden Rex-Johnson is the best-selling author of seven books on Northwest cuisine and wine. For more than 25 years, she and her husband have lived in Seattle, just a tomato toss from the beloved Pike Place Public Market.

Reviews

[Carolyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

I must have had an older edition because the cover is different. Very wordy, hard to do recipes, exotic sounding and the chapter of recipes I wish were spread out with pictures since they are difficult to follow.

[Sandy (WI girl at heart) · Rating 3 out of 5]

love reading cookbooks!

[Nancy · Rating 3 out of 5]

it was ok