Sitting down and having a great meal with great company is better than any gift you can imagine. This cookbook will give you many great meals that you can enjoy with all your friends. In the book there is included a list of where you can find spices that you thought were impossible to find, cookware that you thought only professional chefs were able to buy, and a place to buy true California wine straight from the wine maker, nothing is exclusive anymore to the big restaurants or the big chefs. You can make it happen right in your very own kitchen. The recipes are genuinely family recipes as well as recipes that I've picked up on my many trips around the globe. Born to Slovenian heritage, raised in Sweden, and with a passion for cooking this book has a lot of variety, for both young and older generations. This is the none picture version of Catherine's Kitchen.