American Regional Cuisine, Third Edition

In its Third Edition, American Regional Cuisine combines history, anthropology, and cuisine into a clear and comprehensive resource for the American Regional course. It features sweet and savory recipes of the most popular and memorable dishes from eleven regional culinary traditions. Organized by region, these recipes are drawn from every part of the menu, offering a range of complete meals for each culinary style. Its menu-driven approach is unique, and new to this edition will be more information on fair and festival food, and a new more contemporary menu included in each chapter. The 3rd Edition of American Regional Cuisine adopts a new focus on sustainability as it relates to the culinary industry, incorporating areas on green cuisine and sustainable food practices. Each traditional regional chapter is now complemented with one new contemporary menuand accompanying recipes for added diversity. Menu coverage also includes new information on how the menus were developed and why any special ingredients were used in their development.

The Art Institutes are located nationwide, providing an important source of design, media arts, fashion, and culinary professionals for over 35 years, with more than 125,000 graduates. Since 1991, The Art Institutes system has offered Culinary Arts programs, with 19 locations currently offering programs in culinary arts and several offering culinary arts management. The Culinary Arts program at The Art Institutes features professional kitchen environments and, in some locations, fully operational restaurants. Students work alongside instructors to learn and perform the hands-on skills chefs use each day beginning with tool usage, kitchen procedures, basic cooking, nutrition, and management courses. In addition, The Art Institutes California - Los Angeles campus was recently featured on the Food Network's reality series, "Cooking School Stories."