The Beauty of Food - A Recipe Collection

by Christine Chin

Overview

"We eat first with our eyes."
~Apicius

This is a cookbook about creating and appreciating visually appealing food, offering a diverse variety of recipes. The recipes are mostly lighter fare, with a few riches thrown in for greater appeal. If you appreciate the natural beauty of food, then you will enjoy this book.

Though Mrs. Chin currently lives in Hawai'i, most of the recipes offered are not tropical—she has an appreciation for food and cuisines from around the world. She has sorted her many culinary pleasures by season, adding in a period that she likes to call 'Late Winter', which is past the holidays and is turning into Spring. What is often a period of gloominess for many, becomes a period of appreciation for the subtle beauty that comes with the offerings of a new season.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666263473
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	03/22/2021
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Christine Chin is a photographer who loves food. Though she has no formal food training, she's always loved to cook and food has always stimulated her visually as well as through her sense of taste. She started photographing food by accident about seven years ago, and with the encouragement of several friends, she continued exploring this path and found herself working with several local restaurants.

Born and raised in San Francisco, she was exposed to many kinds of foods early in life. she enjoys all different kinds of food and refuses to limit herself to eating just one way. This means that you'll find a wide range of food on these pages—there’s truly something for everyone. She also really loves very fresh food and you'll likely find her scouring the local farmers’ markets for beautiful produce, which become the seeds for many meals and new ideas. Most of the time she loves simple recipes best, though she finds she can’t resist buying and playing with an occasional exotic ingredient.