John Demers: 7 books

Here are almost 100 recipes celebrating the sweet and subtle peach, the embodiment of southern charm. Peaches are featured in savory appetizers and entrees, classic and innovative desserts, alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks, and condiments like salsas, ketchups, jellies and jams. The recipes evoke...

Brett Baldwin, the Texas chef whose carefully controlled life was turned upside down in Marfa Shadows, is back. He's still running his restaurant- a hip, cutting-edge destination called Mesquite in the tiny town of Marfa- but now he's with Meridyth Morgan, former West Texas cheerleader and movie star...

Cook delicious, authentic Jamaican food with this easy-to-follow Jamaican cookbook. Jamaica is the mountainous Caribbean island famed for its coffee and its beaches. But with its abundance of homegrown ingredients and its many cultural influences, it has developed a remarkable cuisine all its...

This collection offers the island's best recipes, both traditional and the new, from Jamaica's hottest chefs and restaurants, including Norma Shirley of Norma at the Wharfhouse, Everett Wilkerson of the Sans Souci Lido and James Palmer at Strawberry Hill, to name only a few. Over 60 full-color photographs,...

This comprehensive Cajun and Creole cookbook presents over seventy recipes from all the top New Orleans restaurants. From Brennan's and Emeril to Commanders Palace—providing all the heady Cajun and Creole flavors of this fabulous food city in one handy volume. Author John DeMers is one of...

Acclaimed chef Brett Baldwin and his Native American friend Jud Garcia are called to the scene of a gruesome torture-homicide in the funky border town of Terlingua. The victim is Juds adopted uncle, craggy-faced, ponytailed Texas blues legend T.J. Rattlesnake Garcia. Rattlesnake has lived for years...

Brett Baldwin is a Texas chef who keeps his life, his emotions, and especially his restaurant Mesquite under careful control. But, when Meridyth Morgan, a Hollywood star and Brett's high school love interest, shows up in Marfa, Texas, and begs him to help find her missing brother and then is kidnapped...