Culinary Capital: Signature Dishes from America's Premier Restaurant City

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Summary: Reflects the city's restaurant variety & quality
Review: Houston is an outstanding city for restaurant lovers and this book contains recipes from some of the city's best restaurants. The recipes are complete and accurate and each includes a photo along with a small writeup on either the restaurant or the chef.

If you can't make it to the restaurants, this is the next best thing to being there.

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Summary: Fat City Doesn't Rate a Cookbook
Review: Oh Puleeeeze. Houston as America's Premier Restaurant City? What happened to New York and San Francisco? Even Las Vegas has better food than the Fat Capital of the US. This cookbook-lite embodies the worst transgression of all -- imagining that the world revolves around its city, and that somehow that matters to foodies. It's pretentious and silly. Besides we all know that nobody in Houston eats mesquite-roasted duck, unless they're trying to impress someone else at the table (usually from out of town). They eat at MacDonalds and hide the supersize when a normal-weight person walks by. Go back in the kitchen and check how many of those recipes REALLY start with cream of mushroom soup.