New Haven Chef's Table: Restaurants, Recipes, & Local Food

by Connecticut Mental Health Center Foundation, Nancy Freeborn, Faith Middleton and Amy Etra

Publisher: Lyons Press

Publication Date: September 2010

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Featured Recipe: Torta al Testo & Crostino Umbro

New Haven is arguably the restaurant capital of Connecticut, with food lovers regularly making the trek to taste the latest and greatest the city has to offer. From the legendary pizzerias of Wooster Street to the hip Ibiza, New Haven’s restaurants, some of which are nationally renowned, reflect the best of the city–international yet down to earth, sophisticated yet unpretentious. New Haven Chef’s Table: Restaurants, Recipes, & Local Food Connections is the first cookbook to gather the depth and breadth of New Haven’s food offerings in one place, with the proceeds to benefit The Connecticut Mental Health Center Foundation (cmhcfoundation.org). Profiling more than 35 of the top New Haven chefs, who each offer two favorite recipes reworked for the home cooks, the book is also a celebration of the growing sustainable food movement, with a focus on food connections with local growers, farmers, and organizations.

Cooks&Books&Recipes {Dee} on New Haven Chef’s Table Cookbook:

We’ve never been to New Haven. If we get there anytime soon, we’ll need to stay a while to try all the restaurants and also to visit the local farmers’ markets, detailed in the book as well. In the meantime, the diversity of recipes in the cookbook will keep us busy: from Guinness Stew and Chorizo with Sweet and Sour Figs to Cranberry Curry Scones and Swedish Chocolate Cupcakes. We’ll be “visiting” the New Haven chefs often.

New Haven Chef’s Table