Mustards Grill Napa Valley Cookbook

By Cindy Pawlcyn, Brigid Callinan and Laurie Smith

This James Beard award-winning cookbook brings chef-owner Cindy Pawlcyn’s Midwestern sensibility and flair for reinventing American food to Napa Valley with over 150 recipes.

Mustards Grill is an institution in the wine country—the friendly restaurant where locals first started going for a full plate of inventive, delicious food and a glass of Napa's finest. Chef-owner Cindy Pawlcyn, founding chef of San Francisco's original Fog City Diner, put down her roots in Napa over 15 years ago, and ever since then, Mustards has been affectionately known as the fancy rib joint with way, way too many wines. This cookbook is full of the best, most enduring recipes from Mustards Grill—ones people consistently ask for and ones to enhance any home cook’s experience in the kitchen.

"Mustards is universally loved by local residents and tourists alike for its smoky, tender, spicy baby back ribs; cornmeal-coated fried green tomatoes; tasty Asian-marinated flank steak; Chinese chicken noodle salad; and, of course, Mustards' always-crisp tangle of deep-fried onion threads. The enduring vitality of this place comes from the fact [that Cindy Pawlcyn] put all the dishes she loved on the menu: country dishes transformed by her sprightly offbeat style and sparkle." 
—FOOD LOVER'S GUIDE TO SAN FRANCISCO

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: May 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781607744511

Reviews for Mustards Grill Napa Valley Cookbook

[candyschultz · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I don't know how I have missed Cindy Pawlcyn's books but I only just came across her. I now possess two of her cookbooks - I don't know if there are more. I always prefer my cookbooks to have lots of photographs and these do not disappoint. The first is Mustards Grill which is the name of one of her restaurants. Just looking through the book makes me want to trek on over to California to eat. For one thing, it appears the sun shines all the time (a terrible temptation to a Michigander in the middle of winter); for another the photographs of the food are truly mouthwatering. I was staring at a photo of strawberries - not the huge, tasteless variety we get in supermarkets - but the lovely small, succulent ones. My husband passed by and said 'you don't even need to eat, do you'. I think he has put his finger on why I love cookbooks. Even a professional does not have time to make all the wonderful dishes that can be thought up but, if you have an educated palate, you can imagine how things will taste and the recipes and photos are like a culinary tour. Let me just whet your appetite: Japanese Inspired Beef Filet "Rolls"; Spicy Mustard and Garlic Poussin with Black Beans and Tomatillo-Avocado Salsa; Tea Smoked Duck with 100-Almond Sauce and Ginger Pickled Mango; Smoked Turkey, Bacon, and Grilled Apple Sandwiches with Guacamole; Lime Creme Fraiche; Cindy's Tapioca Pudding with Bourbon Cream. Okay, that is enough. I am so hungry.

[bobandjohn · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Excellent and accessible. Grape gazpacho is amazing.