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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik
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English

HAWKSWORTH: THE COOKBOOK

David Hawksworth

From acclaimed and award-winning chef David Hawksworth comes a beautiful collection of the recipes that brought him to the top of Canada's culinary world
From David Hawksworth, Vancouver's king of fine dining and contemporary Canadian cuisine comes Hawksworth: The Cookbook, a beautiful collection of exquisite recipes. Chef Hawksworth's restaurants, Hawksworth and Nightingale, have been fixtures of Vancouver's downtown dining scene for years, aweing diners with the intricate, beautiful and refined dishes that have become synonymous with his name. In this book, he shares for the first time the artfully developed recipes that have brought him success over the years, and challenges readers to recreate these dishes for an unforgettable dining experience.Hawksworth: The Cookbook is a celebration of Chef Hawksworth's career to date, with recipes ranging from his time training in London with Michelin-starred chefs, to West, the first restaurant where he served as head chef and began to gain acclaim, to opening his own fine dining restaurant. The book's simpler and more casual recipes reflect the family-style dishes served at Nightingale and the casual fare of Bel Café. The recipes included require varying levels of skill and time commitments, from weekday meals like Spicy Chicken Salad to show-stopping feats of culinary skill like Wagyu Beef Carpaccio with Piquillo Pepper, Parsley, and Beef Tendon. Casual foodies and adventurous cooks alike will find new culinary pleasures with Chef Hawksworth as their guide.

DAVID HAWKSWORTH owns acclaimed Vancouver restaurants Hawksworth, Nightingale, and Bel Café. He and his restaurants have won countless awards, including five awards for Best Upscale Restaurant from Vancouver Magazine. Hawksworth was named among the top three new restaurants by enRoute magazine in 2011 and was named nation-wide “Restaurant of the Year” by Maclean's in 2012. Chef Hawksworth is one of Canada's leading culinary talents and the youngest chef inducted into the BC Restaurant Hall of Fame.
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Published 2019-10-01 by Appetite by Random House (NA)

Comments

“[Chef Hawksworth's] much-lauded cuisine blended a deep admiration for fresh, regional, seasonal ingredients with a mastery of classic techniques acquired from a decade in some of Britain's most acclaimed kitchens.” —The Globe and Mail

“David Hawksworth's compositions are playful, artistically colourful, and feature bold flavours, along with an increasing. . . preoccupation with texture and mouth feel.” —Maclean's

“Chef Hawksworth's cooking techniques are of the finest pedigree, never deployed for flash and attention but only to achieve the best result.” —Nuvo