A Quick Note About the CookBook...



  1. Countless people have provided recipes for this food wiki. Anyone from street vendors to celebrity chefs has influenced my personal cooking style, and is to thank for these recipes.
  2. This cookbook is, above all other things, American. The goal is to refine and widen the American culinary identity by using foreign techniques with locally available ingredients and with an American savoir-faire.
  3. This cookbook does not use measurements such as "scant teaspoons" or "heaping cups". Each of these recipes has been tested and reviewed for the purpose of providing reliable instructions for easy meals.
  4. This cookbook is a public, living document. Anyone is welcome to join and submit original or found recipes.