Hawksworth (The Cookbook)

From acclaimed and award-winning chef David Hawksworth comes a beautiful collection of the recipes that brought him to the top of Canada's culinary world.

From David Hawksworth, Vancouver's king of fine dining and contemporary Canadian cuisine comes Hawksworth, a beautiful collection of exquisite recipes. Chef Hawksworth's restaurants, Hawksworth and Nightingale, have been fixtures of Vancouver's downtown dining scene for years, aweing diners with the intricate, beautiful and refined dishes that have become synonymous with his name. In this book, he shares for the first time the artfully developed recipes that have brought him success over the years, and challenges readers to recreate these dishes for an unforgettable dining experience.

Hawksworth is a celebration of Chef Hawksworth's career to date, with recipes ranging from his time training in London with Michelin-starred chefs, to West, the first restaurant where he served as head chef and began to gain acclaim, to opening his own fine dining restaurant. The book's simpler and more casual recipes reflect the family-style dishes served at Nightingale and the casual fare of Bel Café. The recipes included require varying levels of skill and time commitments, from weekday meals like Spicy Chicken Salad to show-stopping feats of culinary skill like Wagyu Beef Carpaccio with Piquillo Pepper, Parsley, and Beef Tendon. Casual foodies and adventurous cooks alike will find new culinary pleasures with Chef Hawksworth as their guide.