This rare and exciting cookbook offers the home chef exactly same recipes as those used in some of the world's most famous restaurants, recipes upon which the fame of those establishments has been built. In this unique volume, James Stroman has assembled notable recipes used daily in more than one hundred of the finest restaurants in the western United States, western Canada, and Mexico. Through the cooperation of these great dining establishments, good cooks and would-be good cooks can now have at their fingertips the secrets of some of the world's most noted chefs. Enticing entr es, delectable vegetable dishes, savory sauces, and mouth-watering desserts are included-constituting, in many cases, complete dinner menus. Many of the recipes in Prize Recipes From Great Restaurants are published here for the first time. James Stroman is an inveterate traveler who dines regularly in the world's most outstanding restaurants. He has served as administrative assistant to executives such as the governor of Oklahoma, the president of Pepperdine University, and the owner of the Dallas Cowboys professional football team. This regional cookbook includes recipes from restaurants in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Texas, South Dakota, Wyoming, and even Mexico and western Canada.

Anyone who has visited such restaurants as La Scala in Beverly Hills, California, The Farmhouse in Port Townsend, Washington, and Jenny Lake Lodge in Grand Teton, Wyoming, will especially appreciate the expertise with which this unique cookbook has been prepared.