OK- so I am biased. These folks happen to be my friends and the cookbook happens to feature my husband, Jim Dunlop. But it is still a good cookbook! With recipes like Pork Belly Pizza with Barbecue Sauce & Sweet Corn, Blue Cheese-Stuffed Figs with Balsamic Reduction, Braised Rabbit with White Wine, Scallions, Mustard Seeds, & Ham-Wrapped Roasted Loin (whew!), and of course their amazing Breakfast Pizza (with bacon & eggs on it!), the Big Sur Bakery Cookbook features a variety of complex and simple combinations of locally-sourced ingredients. There are profiles of 13 of their 'personalities'- folks who either work there, loiter there, or supply the restaurant with ingredients over the course of the year. My husband got to be profiled in the March chapter, followed by a bunch of recipes that call for eggs, preferably ours or some other pasture-raised variety. With quotes like, "Free-range doesn't mean shit" and "It's funny...First you pretend to be a farmer. Then you keep doing it. And the next thing you know, you actually are one", Jim's profile is controversial and lighthearted, just how he likes to keep things.
You can order this book right of my blog, with a small percentage going to support my monthly costs of keeping this thing up. A delicious way to support me and this great restaurant!
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