Family Style: Elegant Everyday Recipes Inspired by Home and Heritage

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From culinary creator, lifestyle expert, and award-winning fashion designer Peter Som, a stunning Asian American cookbook of 100 recipes with unique and creative flavor combinations, paying homage to his identity, heritage, and family.

For Peter Som, nothing is quite as satisfying as the moment when everyone is gathered around the table and platters of food are set down for everyone to dig into together. In Family Style, Peter pays homage to his identity and heritage, with more than 100 powerfully flavorful comfort food recipes for breakfasts, dinners, desserts, and more—all unfussy, comforting, and creative. Perfect for an everyday meal at home, yet sophisticated, elegant, and visually stunning with recipes for entertaining to impress any guest.

At the heart of each of the 100 recipes in this cookbook for home cooks, Family Style, are imaginative and personally unique flavor combinations. There are beloved nods to his grandma’s Cantonese flavor profiles, his mom’s deep love of French food, his Bay Area upbringing, and desserts that are “not too sweet”—the highest compliment in his family—and more, with recipes including:

• Burnt Miso Cinnamon Toast
• Crispy Deviled Tea Eggs
• Radicchio and Fennel Salad with Creamy Miso Maple Vinaigrette
• Roasted Carrots with Gochujang Honey Butter
• Cacio e Pepe Sticky Rice with Egg
• Hoisin Honey Roast Chicken
• Char Siu Bacon Cheeseburger
• Chickpea Bourguignon
• Lychee Lime Pavlova

A reflection of Peter’s signature sensibility, Family Style is a beautiful and joyful invitation to create memorable family style meals and celebrate with the flavors of his life. 

Peter Som contains multitudes: the fashion designer has gained acclaim as a culinary expert, and in this book he shares recipes inspired not only by his own heritage, but the California cuisine with which he grew up, the French dishes his mother loved, and more. Come for the delicious dishes—burnt miso cinnamon toast, anyone?—but stay for Som’s entertaining expertise and charm. - Town & Country