American Bistro Cookbook

American Bistro Cookbook is a personal sampling of the best new recipes adapted for entertaining at home. The cookbook features recipes from American bistro restaurants.  ----  Format: Hardcover with dust jacket, 176 pages.  Copyright: 1986  Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary  Author: Irena Chalmer  Description: Something very new and exciting is happening with American restaurants ... something never seen before, something brilliant! Irena Chalmers calls it American Bistro, and in this stunning book, she documents this glorious phenomenon.  With generous help from her friends, Chalmers offers a cross-country tour of the smartest new restaurants to be found, each one an idea of hospitality brought to polished realization in every detail: beautiful interiors, gleaming surfaces, handsome china and glass, thoughtful and friendly service, brilliant chefs, beauty in presentation and -- beyond all other considerations -- ravishing food based on bold new concepts.  Chalmers, whose books, a