Baco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles

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This is the cookbook of the season from the chef credited with capturing the multicultural flavours of Los Angeles on a plate. Here are 130 recipes from Josef Centeno, chef and owner of five acclaimed restaurants - Baco Mercat, Bar Ama, Orsa & Winston, Ledlow, and P.Y.T. Centeno is known for innovative, delicious culinary mash-ups and this book is inspired by foods served at the restaurant, with recipes simplified and written for competent home cooks, with Centeno's simple mantra at its core: 'Follow inspiration.'

Josef Centeno is the chef-owner of four acclaimed restaurants in downtown Los Angeles: Baco Mercat, Bar Ama, Orsa & Winston and Ledlow. Josef's tasting menus at a restaurant called Opus in Koreatown were famously groundbreaking: you could order as many courses as you wanted for $10 each. And when he opened Lazy Ox in Little Tokyo, it was the first restaurant that shifted critical attention to downtown Los Angeles. Betty Hallock is a food writer who formerly was an editor in the LA Times' award-winning Food section. As deputy food editor and a founding editor of the Daily Dish blog, she helped direct food and drink coverage, writing and editing stories about restaurants, cooking, cocktails, business trends, and more.

"Los Angeles chef Josef Centeno's new book is the product of a career in restaurants, with bountiful recipes that reflect contemporary LA." Foodism