From acclaimed and multi award-winning Chef David Hawksworth comes a stunning collection of the exquisite recipes that brought him to the top of Canada’s culinary world.
As a leader in contemporary Canadian cuisine, Chef Hawksworth’s restaurants, Hawksworth and Nightingale, have been fixtures of Vancouver’s dining scene for the past 10 years, aweing diners with the intricate, beautiful and refined dishes that have become synonymous with his name. In this book, he shares for the first time the artfully developed recipes that have brought him unparalelled success over the years, and challenges readers to recreate these dishes for an unforgettable dining experience.
Hawksworth is a celebration of Chef Hawksworth’s career to date, with recipes ranging from his time training in London with Michelin-starred chefs, to Ouest, the first restaurant where he served as head chef, to opening his own fine dining restaurant. The book’s simpler and more casual recipes reflect the family-style dishes served at Nightingale and the casual fare of Bel Café (a downtown lunchtime go-to destination). The recipes included require varying levels of skill and time commitments, from weekday meals like Crispy Buttermilk Fried Chicken & Pickled Ramps Ranch to show-stopping feats of culinary skill like Wagyu Beef Carpaccio with Piquillo Pepper, Parsley, and Beef Tendon. Casual foodies and adventurous cooks alike will find new culinary pleasures with Chef Hawksworth as their guide.
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David Hawksworth
CHEF DAVID HAWKSWORTH is widely regarded as one of North America’s greatest chefs. He was born and raised in Vancouver, then spent a decade training at Michelin-starred restaurants in the UK, such as Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, L’Escargot and The Square. He returned to Canada in 2000 and took his first Head Chef position, at Ouest (later renamed West), in Vancouver. In 2008 he became the youngest chef inducted into the BC Restaurant Hall of Fame.Chef Hawksworth opened his eponymous restaurant in 2011, at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia. It was awarded the 2012 and 2013 Vancouver Magazine Restaurant of the Year and Chef of the Year awards, followed by five consecutive years as Best Upscale Dining. Shortly after opening it was named in enRoute magazine’s top three Best New Restaurants, and as Maclean’s magazine’s Restaurant of the Year. Chef Hawksworth opened his second restaurant in 2013, the sensationally popular, Nightingale. He also operates two locations of Bel Cafe, Hawksworth Catering, the Hawksworth Young Chef Scholarship Foundation, and an exclusive culinary partnership with Air Canada. He lives in Vancouver with his wife and son.
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Jacob Richler
JACOB RICHLER writes regularly on food and other topics for Maclean’s and several other publications. He has won two National Magazine Awards. Richler is well-known for his food writing and for his books with Chef Susur Lee (Susur: A Culinary Life) and Mark McEwan (Great Food at Home and Mark McEwan’s Fabbrica).
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