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Mustards Grill Napa Valley Cookbook
by Cindy Pawlcyn, Brigid Callinan
ISBN-10: 1580080456
ISBN-13: 9781580080453
ISBN-13: 9781580080453
Region: USA
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Publication Date: October, 2001
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About Mustards Grill Napa Valley Cookbook
Publisher Web Link: http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/tenspeed/
As anyone who has spent time in Napa Valley knows, Mustards Grill is an institution in the wine country—the friendly restaurant where locals first started going for a full plate of fabulous food and a glass of Napa’s finest. Chef-owner Cindy Pawlcyn, founding chef of San Francisco’s original Fog City Diner, put down her roots in Napa over 15 years ago, bringing her midwestern sensibility and flair for reinventing American food to the valley. Ever since then, Mustards has been affectionately known as the fancy rib joint with way, way too many wines. Gorgeous full-color food photography from Saveur photographer Laurie Smith. (http://www.randomhouse.com/)
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About Cindy Pawlcyn
Author Web Link: http://www.mustardsgrill.com/
Cindy Pawlcyn grew up in an accomplished culinary family in which eating a wide variety of freshly made food was a daily occurrence. By the time she was 13 she was working at a local cooking school and equipment store, she then ran a catering business through high school and went on to trade school and college where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Restaurant Management. She also studied at Cordon Bleu and La Varenne in Paris.
She began her career in the kitchen of The Pump Room in Chicago, cooked in other restaurants in Chicago and Minneapolis, and moved to California in 1980 to take a job at MacArthur Park. Cindy has lived and worked in the Napa Valley for over twenty years. She was the opening chef at Meadowwood, worked under Bruce le Favour at Rose and le Favour, and opened her own restaurant, Mustards Grill, in 1983. Caroline Bates, writing in Gourmet Magazine, said at the time “What makes Mustards heads above most of its counterparts is that among its [five] owners is Cindy Pawlcyn...” Ten years later she found that “Mustards has become as familiar a roadside fixture as the old wine estates...It was the first (some would say the best) in a string of successful, precedent-breaking restaurants originated by chef Cindy Pawlcyn...It changed Napa Valley and took the stuffiness out of dining by showing that Americans could be as serious about food and wine as the French, but have more fun.”
Indeed, since Mustards opened, Cindy has been involved in the creation of over a dozen new restaurants including Rio Grill, Fog City Diner, Bix, Roti, and the Buckeye Roadhouse. In a review of the Buckeye, Caroline Bates wrote, “Creating food with a genuine American flavor and good-time places in which to eat it are what Cindy Pawlcyn and her partners...do better than anyone else in California.” Cindy is an inductee of Who’s Who of Cooking in America. She has been twice nominated for the James Beard Foundation award for Best Chef in California, is the recipient of the Robert Mondavi Award for Culinary Excellence, and Fine Beverage and Food Federation’s Career Achievement Award.
Join us in congratulting Cindy Pawlcyn and Brigid Callinan for their achievement! The Mustards Grill Napa Valley Cookbook won the James Beard Award for Best Americana Cookbook and was nominated for the prestigious I.A.C.P. Award for cookbook of the year!
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About Brigid Callinan
Author Web Link: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brigid-callinan/5/795/12
