Hali'imaile General Store Cookbook: Home Cooking from Maui Book

Set on a pineapple plantation in up-country Maui, the Hali'imaile General Store has lured travelers for over a decade with its down-home, island-style cooking. Critics and diners rave about chef Beverly Gannon's rustic, hearty fare, and the restaurant is a fixture on "Best of Maui" lists. THE HALI'IMAILE GENERAL STORE COOKBOOK enables readers to bring the spirit of Maui and its landmark restaurant into their own kitchen with over 100 recipes, accompanied by Beverly's warm, chatty narrative. For all those locals and out-of-towners who've begged Beverly for recipes over the years, she has this to say: "Well, folks, here's the book! And I hope every single copy gets food-stained, dog-eared, and, most of all, enjoyed."

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Gannon's Hali'imaile General Store is actually a restaurant housed in the old general store/grocery of a pineapple plantation on the Hawaiian island of Maui. She opened "the store" 12 years ago as the center of a catering business, but her customers demanded that it be a restaurant, too, and that's what it very shortly became. While it started as a simple place, it is now a sophisticated restaurant. Although there are a few holdovers from the early days, most of the recipes in her cookbook are chef's recipes, "Hawai'i Regional Style" (the name for a special collaboration between top chefs and local growers): Sesame-Crusted Mahimahi with Coconut-Curry Cabbage, Macadamia Nut-Crusted Soft-Shell Crab, Seafood Martini with Wasabi-Ginger Cocktail Sauce. There are also lots of delicious desserts from Gannon's daughter, the pastry chef. For area libraries and others where restaurant books are popular. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.