PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Award-winning author and influential chef Aliza Green is pleased to announce that she will host a special book signing at the first Aruba Wine and Arts Culinary Festival from Thursday, May 19 through Sunday, May 22. While in Aruba, Green along with Mr. Franz Sydow, Food and Beverage Director at the Wyndham Aruba Beach Resort & Casino, will also be collecting recipes from the featured chefs at the festival for inclusion in their forthcoming Aruba Tastes & Tales, a cookbook featuring the best of Aruba, due in fall 2006.
Green's latest book, Field Guide to Meat explains the differences between pork sirloin and pork tenderloin, and between Spanish and Mexican chorizo, and whether quail and pheasant really taste "just like chicken." With engaging text from Aliza Green, this illustrated guide shows how to identify and prepare more than 100 different kinds of meat, from beef, pork and lamb, to goat, wild game, sausages, and more. To help international readers and travelers, cuts are listed with their equivalent names in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German. So, if you're from Venezuela and enjoy picaña, you'll learn that this cut is called "coulotte" in English.
Her authoritative Beans: More than 200 Delicious, Wholesome Recipes from Around the World (Running Press; September 2004; $19.95) takes readers on an exciting new culinary adventure in bean cuisine with hundreds of tasty recipes from more than 25 countries across the world. With this book, Aliza Green has created a virtual bean renaissance, where cooks can discover the variety of dishes that can be made with the different flavors, textures and colors that beans have to offer.
At the Festival Green will also be signing another book from her popular Field Guide series. Her Field Guide to Produce, (Quirk Books, spring 2004) has already sold out of its first printing of 20,000 books and has been featured in New York Times, National Post of Canada, Men's Health Magazine, Shape Magazine and she has appeared on NBC’s Today Show. This practical guide to the world's most popular fruits and vegetables features delightful items such as quince, jicama, kumquats, amaranth, yuzu, and wing beans. But a degree in botany is not necessary to make sense of it all -- just carry along Field Guide to Produce!
The first annual Aruba Wine and Arts Culinary Festival will take place at the Aruba Wyndham Resort Spa & Casino May 19 through 22, 2005. For more information, visit http://www.arubawyndham.com
Aliza Green is a chef, food stylist, and author. She is also the co-author of the James Beard award-winning Ceviche: Seafood, Salads, and Cocktails with a Latino Twist as well as the critically acclaimed George Perrier: Le Bec-Fin Recipes. Aliza Green lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and her two children. For more information, a biography, articles, recipes, and links to her books, visit www.alizagreen.com.
