Breakfast Comforts (Williams-Sonoma) With Enticing Recipes for the Morning, including Favorite Dishes from Restaurants Around the Country

by Rodgers, Rick; Caruso, Maren

• ISBN13: 9781616280703
• ISBN10: 1616280700
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-07
• Publisher: Weldon Owen

Summary

This delicious new cookbook, filled with everyone's favorite breakfast and brunch comfort food dishes, is all about the first meal of the day: Stacks of fluffy buttermilk pancakes, raised Belgian waffles with strawberries and whipped ream, cheesy omelets and quiches, and flaky biscuits with sausage gravy. There's also an entire section on favorite morning drinks. In addition, signature dishes from favorite breakfast and brunch restaurants from around the country are featured, such as Crab Eggs Benedict from Portage Bay Cafe in Seattle, pecan caramel rolls from Hell's Kitchen in Minneapolis and BBQ shrimp and grits from the Ruby Slipper Cafe in New Orleans.

Author Biography

Rick Rodgers is an award-winning cookbook author, cooking teacher, food writer, and radio and television guest chef whose infectious love of good food reaches countless cooks every day. He is the author or coauthor of ten Williams-Sonoma titles, among them Comfort Food and Essentials of Roasting. He has also written numerous other cookbooks on a wide range of subjects, including the best-selling Thanksgiving 101 and Fondue, and IACP Cookbook Award nominees The Carefree Cook and Kaffeehaus. His recipes have appeared in Food & Wine, Cooking Light, and Fine Cooking, and he is a frequent contributor to Bon Appétit magazine.

Maren Caruso, based in San Francisco, has photographed over 50 cookbooks, including Williams-Sonoma Cheese, Cooking from the Farmers’ Market, and several titles in the Williams-Sonoma Collection series, as well as Chocolate Obsession, the winner of an IACP best food photography award. Her photographs have also appeared in Saveur, Gourmet, and Food & Wine magazines.