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Seven new featured Recipes from Chef Monica Pope! We have the following recipes from her Central Market Cooking Class with videos and three bonus recipes!

• Balsamic Caramel Beef Cubes
• Three Cheese Ravioli
• Endive, Cremini, Bleu Cheese, Pecan Salad
• Date Butter Tart
• Bread & Butter Style Pickles
• The Nutburger
• Spinach Dip
  

The first step to cooking a great meal is to visit your local farmer’s market; the second step is to use Chef Monica Pope’s recipes in eat where your food lives™ interactive cookbook  to make what you bring home from the market into simply delicious meals. 

With over 100 recipes in eat where your food lives - and more recipes being regularly added - this interactive cookbook features unusual, beautiful food combinations, presented in a way that are simple enough for you to recreate your own flavorful, fresh and satisfying meals at home.

At her celebrated Houston restaurant, t’afia, Monica Pope does exactly that: create daily menus from what is in season from local farmers and ranchers.  Ninety percent of the creative effort is already done by the farmer, cultivating and harvesting (at the right time) the food that grows well where you live.  This interactive cookbook will help you with the remaining 10% of effort that it takes to transform these raw ingredients into a memorable meal.

Chef Monica Pope

Best Chef, 2009 Houston Culinary Awards

Alchemy Award Honoree, 2008

James Beard Award Nominee, Best Chef Southwest, 2007

Most Creative Chef, O Magazine, 2007

The only Texas woman to be named Best New Chef, Food & Wine Magazine, 1996