From Pascale Beale, celebrated founder and chef of the Montecito Country Kitchen in Santa Barbara, comes Spring, the completely revised and updated first volume in her four-book series of seasonal cookbooks. Drawing on a lifetime of devotion to the art and craft of cooking, as well as the lessons of her Mediterranean-style cooking school, Pascale shares her knowledge and enjoyment of food. With a particular awareness of what is freshly available in the marketplace, she shows how to prepare and serve a delicious, memorable meal.

The sumptuously illustrated, original menus of Spring reflect Pascale’s cosmopolitan background and culinary upbringing, and her step-by-step approach makes shopping, organization, and timing simple. The menus may be mixed and matched for every occasion, producing mouth-watering feasts that fuse the flavors of the many cuisines.

Uniting them is a common-sense approach that encompasses good food and good health and also reminds us all to “smell the roses on the way.”