Baco

This is the cookbook of the season from the chef credited with capturing the multicultural flavours of Los Angeles on a plate.

Here are 130 recipes from Josef Centeno, chef and owner of five acclaimed restaurants – Bäco Mercat, Bar Ama, Orsa & Winston, Ledlow, and P.Y.T. Centeno is known for innovative, delicious culinary mash-ups and this book is inspired by foods served at the restaurant, with recipes simplified and written for competent home cooks, with Centeno’s simple mantra at its core: 'Follow inspiration.'

About the Author

Josef Centeno is the chef-owner of four acclaimed restaurants in downtown Los Angeles: Baco Mercat, Bar Ama, Orsa & Winston and Ledlow. Josef's tasting menus at a restaurant called Opus in Koreatown were famously groundbreaking: you could order as many courses as you wanted for $10 each. And when he opened Lazy Ox in Little Tokyo, it was the first restaurant that shifted critical attention to downtown Los Angeles. Betty Hallock is a food writer who formerly was an editor in the LA Times' award-winning Food section. As deputy food editor and a founding editor of the Daily Dish blog, she helped direct food and drink coverage, writing and editing stories about restaurants, cooking, cocktails, business trends, and more.