California's Central Coast wine country is growing faster than a speeding bullet. The region is home to great wines, stunning vistas, and incredible food, just like pricier, established Napa and Sonoma. The media has taken notice, with awards and accolades accumulating monthly, but many people are just beginning to find out what's here. In search of a less-pretentious, less expensive wine country experience, they're flocking here in ever-growing numbers. This glossy new cookbook, The California Central Coast Wine Country Cookbook, celebrates the region with stunning landscape and food photography plus 120 accessible, wine friendly and wine inclusive recipes featuring California's glorious bounty, like Shaved Artichoke & Pancetta Salad with Lavender, Fennel & Garlic-Crusted Roast Chicken, Sole with Pinot Noir Butter Sauce, and Fresh Fig Tart with Honey, Goat Cheese, & Pistachio Nuts. Plus get-to-know-them profiles of 25 of the regions passionate winemakers and food producers. Even if you can't visit (and believe me, after paging through this gorgeous book, you'll want to), this book will help you create a convivial, wine-country feast in your own home. "Paso Robles is a region full of mavericks and innovators…French wine nobility cultivate vineyards next to fourth-generation cowboys, and for every sleek new wine bar, there's a cowboy saloon with moose heads hung on the walls." Justluxe.com

Brigit Binns has authored or co-authored twenty-five cookbooks, many of them for Williams-Sonoma. She’s also helped many of this country’s most respected chefs—like New York’s Michael Psilakis (How to Roast a Lamb, Little Brown, 2009) and Los Angeles’ Joachim Splichal (Patina: Spuds, Truffles, and Wild Gnocchi, Collins, 1995)—turn their cookbook dreams into reality.


The Cook & The Butcher, her eleventh book for Williams-Sonoma, has won wide praise. Her book collaboration with the “rock-star” butcher Ryan Farr—San Francisco’s “King of Meats,”—Whole Beast Butchery (Chronicle, 2011) was nominated for a 2012 IACP award.


Her husband, actor Casey Biggs, has gained fame as the “Paso Wine Man,” via a viral video spot that was awarded the Wine Spectator Video of the Year, and won several Addys.