The Western Kitchen: Seasonal Recipes from Montana's Chico Hot Springs Resort [Hardcover]

For more than a hundred years, folks from Montana and all over the world have been eating, soaking, and celebrating at Chico Hot Springs in Montanas Paradise Valley. Today, from weddings to pool parties to stream-side fish fries, the special menus that the renowned chefs have created and special events that the staff has executed include some of the best food that can be found in the state--much of which is grown and raised right in the Paradise Valley. This new book includes more than a hundred recipes celebrating the seasons at the legendary resort and gorgeous photographs of the food, people, and events that make a visit to Chico an iconic Montana experience.At Montanas Chico Hot Springs Resort, their mission is to turn guests into friends and friends into family. For more than a century visitors have soaked in their legendary waters and Chico has been hosting parties and entertaining guests from all over the world, whether they are cowhands or celebrities. The surrounding majesty of the mountains, the free flowing Yellowstone River and the vastness of the valley where it sits, nestled in the shadow of 11,000-foot Emigrant Peak, make this historic and rustic resort unique. And the food keeps the visitors coming back.From their famous brunch, featuring bread puddings, quiches, smoked duck, and coffee cakes, to the bison ravioli appetizers and flaming orange desserts that bookend their fantastic dinners, the dining room at Chico is legendary. The combination of culinary expertise, a chefs garden and greenhouse, regional ingredients and the subtle elegance of Chico Hot Springs dining room brings people together to share in celebrations, festive gatherings, traditions and simple meals.Chicos chefs stay true to mountain cuisine, relying on the freshest ingredients to make very dish from scratch. They find the best meats and trout from local Montana farms and ranches, and their most important source for ingredients is in their backyard, where two geothermal greenl³’