Helen Brown's West Coast Cookbook

I'd be hard pressed to find a more sincere, well executed, simply joyous cookbook than Helen Evans Brown's masterful tribute and celebration of West Coast cuisine. It was written over 40 years ago and, like a true classic often does, it remains as touching and relevant as ever. The recipes are most fabulous -- many often the most obscure, and once sought-after -- and here they have a comfortable home. If this were a perfect world, this would be a cooking staple.