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This James Beard award-winning cookbook brings chef-owner Cindy Pawlcyn’s Midwestern sensibility and flair for reinventing American food to Napa Valley with over 150 recipes.

Mustards Grill is an institution in the wine country—the friendly restaurant where locals first started going for a full plate of inventive, delicious food and a glass of Napa's finest. Chef-owner Cindy Pawlcyn, founding chef of San Francisco's original Fog City Diner, put down her roots in Napa over 15 years ago, and ever since then, Mustards has been affectionately known as the fancy rib joint with way, way too many wines. This cookbook is full of the best, most enduring recipes from Mustards Grill—ones people consistently ask for and ones to enhance any home cook’s experience in the kitchen.

"Mustards is universally loved by local residents and tourists alike for its smoky, tender, spicy baby back ribs; cornmeal-coated fried green tomatoes; tasty Asian-marinated flank steak; Chinese chicken noodle salad; and, of course, Mustards' always-crisp tangle of deep-fried onion threads. The enduring vitality of this place comes from the fact [that Cindy Pawlcyn] put all the dishes she loved on the menu: country dishes transformed by her sprightly offbeat style and sparkle."
—FOOD LOVER'S GUIDE TO SAN FRANCISCO

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Praise for Mustards Grill Napa Valley Cookbook

"As the first (some would say the best) in a string of successful, precedent-breaking restaurants originated by chef Cindy Pawlcyn. It changed Napa Valley and took the stuffiness out of dining by showing that Americans could be as serious about food and wine as the French, but have more fun." —Gourmet

"Take home some hearty American fare." —The San Jose Mercury News

"Accurate views of the restaurant, its food, and its sense of fun . . . it's a feast for the eyes and the imagination." —Omaha World Herald

"The recipes in MUSTARDS GRILL represent a wonderful marriage between common American foods, California produce and influences from Latin American and Asian immigrants." —New Orleans Times Picayune

"The book is a perfect reflection of its author's eclectic style that melds sophistication and global inspirations with an earthy American quality." —San Francisco Chronicle

"Like its namesake, the cookbook is bright and bountiful, with a touch of tongue-in-cheek flippancy." —Charleston Post & Courier

"A feast for the eyes with no muss and fuss." —The Los Angeles Daily News

"The book is as honest as the chef" and the "dreamy desserts . . . are the epitome of comfort." —Santa Rosa Press Democrat

"Pawlcyn's casual writing style gives the reader a feel for her restaurant, and her easy-to-follow recipes are accompanied by chatty—and helpful—notes." —Minneapolis Star Tribune

"[MUSTARDS GRILL is] a place that's sophisticated without being pretentious. The recipes in this cookbook are no different." —American Way

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About the Author

Cindy Pawlcyn

Cindy Pawlcyn currently owns three of Napa’s most beloved restaurants: Mustards Grill, Cindy’s Backstreet Kitchen, and Go Fish. She was on Bravo’s Top Chef Masters and was a guest judge on Top Chef. She recently opened a restaurant at the famed Monterey Bay Aquarium. Pawlcyn has authored four cookbooks: Mustards Grill Napa Valley Cookbook, Fog City Diner Cookbook, Big Small Plates, and Cindy Pawlcyn’s Appetizers. More by Cindy Pawlcyn

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Brigid Callinan

Cindy Pawlcyn currently owns three of Napa’s most beloved restaurants: Mustards Grill, Cindy’s Backstreet Kitchen, and Go Fish. She was on Bravo’s Top Chef Masters and was a guest judge on Top Chef. She recently opened a restaurant at the famed Monterey Bay Aquarium. Pawlcyn has authored four cookbooks: Mustards Grill Napa Valley Cookbook, Fog City Diner Cookbook, Big Small Plates, and Cindy Pawlcyn’s Appetizers. More by Brigid Callinan

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Laurie Smith

Cindy Pawlcyn currently owns three of Napa’s most beloved restaurants: Mustards Grill, Cindy’s Backstreet Kitchen, and Go Fish. She was on Bravo’s Top Chef Masters and was a guest judge on Top Chef. She recently opened a restaurant at the famed Monterey Bay Aquarium. Pawlcyn has authored four cookbooks: Mustards Grill Napa Valley Cookbook, Fog City Diner Cookbook, Big Small Plates, and Cindy Pawlcyn’s Appetizers. More by Laurie Smith

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