Coi Stories and Recipes

ISBN: 9780714865904
Publication date: 01/09/2013

To be published: September 2013
Daniel Patterson is the head chef of Coi, a restaurant in San Francisco, California. At Coi, Patterson mixes modern culinary techniques with local, wild and cultivated ingredients to create highly original dishes that speak of place, memory and emotion. It's an approach that has won him two Michelin stars and a worldwide reputation for pioneering a new kind of California cuisine.
Coi, the cookbook tells the story of restaurant its dishes and Patterson's philosophy. Beginning with a look at California - how Patterson arrived there an its influence on Coi - the book takes the reader into the Coi kitchen, and through an eleven course Coi tasting menu. It does so by way of a series of short essays, each comprised of an engaging text and narrative recipe, which reveal the story and inspiration behind the restaurant's creative dishes. The stories behind a further fifty selected dishes are also narrated, and are accompanied by conversational recipes.
The book includes 150 specially commissioned colour photographs showing the finished dishes as well as atmospheric images of the restaurant, the California landscape and portraits of Coi's staff and suppliers.

Daniel Patterson was born in Massachusetts and moved to California in 1989, where he now has three restaurants: Coi (2006), Plum (2010) and Haven (2012). At Coi, Patterson mixed modern culinary techniques with local and cultivated ingredients to create highly original dishes that speak of place, memory and emotion.

Pages: 304
Dimension: 290mm X 214mm
Author: PATTERSON, DANIEL