Award-winning Open Kitchen is the story of one day in the life of an inn chef and of how easy it is to transform simple, fresh ingredients into exceptional cuisine. The book shares many secrets of Michael Smith'ss contemporary creative cuisine and shows how to embrace the art of cuisine at home. Smith'ss cooking is unpretentious: he uses simple, fresh ingredients, innovative taste combinations, and healthful vegetable-thickened sauces.
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Chef Michael Smith graduated with honors from the prestigious Culinary Institute of America in New York in 1991. He worked in London, South American and Caribbean restaurants before coming back to North America and Manhattan.
In 1992 he moved to Prince Edward Island, from where he has become Canada's best-known chef, the winner of the James Beard Award for Cooking Show Excellence and host of Chef at Home, Chef at Large and The Inn Chef on Food Network Canada and in 26 other countries.
He is today an award winning cookbook author, newspaper columnist, roving Canadian cuisine ambassador, restaurant chef and home cook.