Here's a little something for your cookbook collection! "California Home Cooking: 400 Recipes that Celebrate the Abundance of Farm and Garden... " by Michele Ana Jordan. A comprehensive and authoritative cookbook covering California cooking and California cuisine, one that unites several different cuisines: Spanish, Mexican, Asian, and Italian, and that makes use of California's year-round harvest of produce. To pull together four hundred recipes, the author combed through old and current newspapers, cooking magazines and restaurant menus, and talked with home cooks."