California Herb Cookery from the Ranch House Restaurant

Alan Hooker and friend Beatrice Wood have produced a masterful record of fifty years of ground breaking California cuisine with over recipes covering all aspects of the great art of cooking with herbs. Hooker, known as the grandfather of California cuisine, taught Child, Puck, and Waters and made herbs popular in restaurant cooking. Liberal with butter, cream, and other tasty ingredients he cooked for the gourmet pallet in home kitchens. Woods drawings made when she was years old are saucy, irreverent, and naughty. They capture the atmosphere of the restaurant and love of good food.