This companion book to the landmark twenty-six-part PBS series America's Best Chefs Cook with Jeremiah Tower presents a candid portrait of fourteen James Beard Award--winning chefs as seen through the eyes of Jeremiah Tower, the legendary chef, author, and acclaimed pioneer of American regional cuisine. He takes a fascinating culinary journey around the country, visiting Alain Ducasse, Michael Romano, Gale Gand, Charlie Trotter, Nancy Silverton, and the other celebrated chefs to reveal how they work with ingredients and techniques to articulate a culinary style and sensibility that is uniquely their own. Celebrating a culinary heritage as rich and colorful as the American landscape, America's Best Chefs Cook with Jeremiah Tower contains over 100 exceptional recipes, with favorites from each chef's distinctive repertoire. There are fresh twists on the familiar as well as intriguing new flavor combinations and innovations, ranging from a classic-with a difference-BLT (Alain Ducasse) and flavor...