"Modern, fresh Asian-influenced recipes for every home cook, from one of the most acclaimed of the new crop of bright young chefs in America today. """ The flavors of the Pacific Rim and beyond have never been more popular-- EVERYDAY ASIAN combines them with seasonal market basket ingredients and simple techniques to create utterly inventive and luscious dishes just right for weekday meals or simple home entertaining. EVERYDAY ASIAN defines " Asian" in the broader global sense, and includes one hundred and twenty recipes with far Eastern, Indian and southeast Asian accents, including: --Chinese chicken salad with pickled vegetables --Seared tuna and three-bean salad --Smoky eggplant and yogurt puree --Steamed mussels with green curry broth --Roasted five-spice chicken --Thai pork curry --Stir-fried beef with black beans --Baked coconut rice pudding Patricia Yeo is the perfect chef to bring these recipes and many more into your kitchen. Her fusion dishes have been praised in The New York Times, which gave a three-star review to her restaurant A/Z. And her own background growing up in the Pacific Northwest, being fed by her Chinese family, training in France and then starting her career in Bobby Flay' s kitchen at Miracle Grill have combined to give her a unique perspective on both technique and presentation of clear, crisp flavors in every recipe.