Signature Tastes of Bellingham: Favorite Recipes of our Local Restaurants - Tapa blanda

Do you remember enjoying a meal at that famous restaurant, and wishing you could get the recipe? Or visiting a city and eating at that cute little café that everyone raved about? Well now, you literally have your cake and eat it too. Or at least the recipe for the cake. Signature Tastes of Bellingham captures 100 restaurant recipes that define the City of Subdued Excitement. From the famous Whiskey Crab Soup at the Cliff House, to the cake that started Erin Baker’s baking empire, these are the restaurants, recipes and pictures that define the culinary tastes of Bellingham, Washington.

Steven W. Siler is a firefighter-cum-chef serving both in the Deep South and the Pacific Northwest. He is the best-selling author of the Signature Tastes cookbook series. Long marinated in the epicurean heritage of the Deep South, Steven has spent over 20 years in the much-vaulted restaurant industry from BOH to FOH to chef. In addition, he has served as an editor and contributing writer for several food publications. When not trying to shove food down his fellow firefighters’ gullets, he enjoys sailing and sampling the finest of scotches and wines, and has an irrational love affair with opera.